Connecting a Huawei B618 LTE router to Mikrotik

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I am thinking of getting Rain LTE-A from one of the ISP's. You get a Huawei B618 with SIM that is locked to the router.

It has a LAN and WLAN eth port. From what I could see you cannot put this router in bridge mode and dial out from the Mikrotik.

Is it still possible to connect the router to the Mikrotik and then via routing in the Mikrotik provide access to internet via the Huawei B618 to a subnet that is defined on the Mikrotik.

I already have ADSL setup like this with a modem in bridge mode.

My goal is to have both ADSL and the LTE as available internet connections to the internal LAN. There are 3 LAN sub nets and I want one of the sub nets to rather use the LTE connection instead of the ADSL.

Mikrotik model is RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN

Hope this makes sense.
 
Easy. Leave DHCP enabled, enable DHCP client on the port you want to use on your Mikrotik, and plug in. Profit.
 
Bernie said:
It has a LAN and WLAN eth port. From what I could see you cannot put this router in bridge mode and dial out from the Mikrotik.

Is it still possible to connect the router to the Mikrotik and then via routing in the Mikrotik provide access to internet via the Huawei B618 to a subnet that is defined on the Mikrotik.
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Correct, no bridge mode. Connection is the same as with other LTE routers, you will see many posts how to connect B315 or B593 to the more capable routers.

Cutting short, connect Huawaei LAN port to the Mikrotik WAN port by cable. Put Mikrotik IP address in the DMZ option on the Huawei.

All other things you will configure on the Mikrotik, I can't assist there.
 
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Bernie said:
I am thinking of getting Rain LTE-A from one of the ISP's. You get a Huawei B618 with SIM that is locked to the router.

It has a LAN and WLAN eth port. From what I could see you cannot put this router in bridge mode and dial out from the Mikrotik.

Is it still possible to connect the router to the Mikrotik and then via routing in the Mikrotik provide access to internet via the Huawei B618 to a subnet that is defined on the Mikrotik.

I already have ADSL setup like this with a modem in bridge mode.

My goal is to have both ADSL and the LTE as available internet connections to the internal LAN. There are 3 LAN sub nets and I want one of the sub nets to rather use the LTE connection instead of the ADSL.

Mikrotik model is RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN

Hope this makes sense.
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sajunky said:
Correct, no bridge mode. Connection is the same as with other LTE routers, you will see many posts how to connect B315 or B593 to the more capable routers.

Cutting short, connect Huawaei LAN port to the Mikrotik WAN port by cable. Put Mikrotik IP address in the DMZ option on the Huawei.

All other things you will configure on the Mikrotik, I can't assist there.
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I am in the same boat.
My mikrotik has only Ethernet ports and no WAN ports.
Does it still apply?
Currently I'm also using bridge mode with ADSL and have the ISP username and password in the mikrotik. Is it the same for the LTE access details?

/edit. I don't want to use both ADSL and LTE. Just LTE and the Adsl as failover.
The Mikrotik needs to do all the routing.
 
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tRoN said:
I am in the same boat.
My mikrotik has only Ethernet ports and no WAN ports.
Does it still apply?
Currently I'm also using bridge mode with ADSL and have the ISP username and password in the mikrotik. Is it the same for the LTE access details?

/edit. I don't want to use both ADSL and LTE. Just LTE and the Adsl as failover.
The Mikrotik needs to do all the routing.
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No. For OP it has to have two WAN ports.

Your requirements are less demanding, you can do it different. Huawei can switch automatically between WAN port and LTE. Connect DSL modem to the Huawei WAN/LAN port and setup your ISP dial up details in the Huawei Ethernet section. Strictly speaking Huawei do not do failover, but it will detect active WAN connection during startup. If not present it will activate cellular connection. As you want do all routing on Mikrotik, follow my first post, it is the same.

EDIT: On B315s there is no option for trying cellular first, I don't know B618, probably is the same.
 
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Thanks Genisys and sajunky for the replies and options. At least its possible and will require some fiddling on my side.
 
Bernie said:
Thanks Genisys and sajunky for the replies and options. At least its possible and will require some fiddling on my side.
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Please post or PM the process if you get it right.
 
sajunky said:
No. For OP it has to have two WAN ports.

Your requirements are less demanding, you can do it different. Huawei can switch automatically between WAN port and LTE. Connect DSL modem to the Huawei WAN/LAN port and setup your ISP dial up details in the Huawei Ethernet section. Strictly speaking Huawei do not do failover, but it will detect active WAN connection during startup. If not present it will activate cellular connection. As you want do all routing on Mikrotik, follow my first post, it is the same.

EDIT: On B315s there is no option for trying cellular first, I don't know B618, probably is the same.
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Hi
Here is the screenshot of the Ethernet settings of the B618 showing the various connection options.

What do you think?

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tRoN said:
Hi
Here is the screenshot of the Ethernet settings of the B618 showing the various connection options.

What do you think?

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Exactly the same as on B315s. "Auto" will try to detect active WAN uplink device on the WAN/LAN port, "LAN only" disable auto detection, other options depend whether you use uplink broadband device as a router or a modem in a bridge mode. Note that DNS server and manual IP settings are only valid when router is in WAN mode. For LAN interface settings look in WiFi DHCP section, it is confusing at times.
 
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sajunky said:
Exactly the same as on B315s. "Auto" will try to detect active WAN uplink device on the WAN/LAN port, "LAN only" disable auto detection, other options depend whether you use uplink broadband device as a router or a modem in a bridge mode. Note that DNS server and manual IP settings are only valid when router is in WAN mode. For LAN interface settings look in WiFi DHCP section, it is confusing at times.
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So could I connect the Adsl router which is already in bridge mode to the B618 and then connect the B618 to the Mikrotik to do the routing?
I could keep the Adsl switched off and only switchon as a failover.

The main other issue is the port forwarding which I rely on and it's already setup on the mikrotik router.
 
tRoN said:
So could I connect the Adsl router which is already in bridge mode to the B618 and then connect the B618 to the Mikrotik to do the routing?
I could keep the Adsl switched off and only switchon as a failover.

The main other issue is the port forwarding which I rely on and it's already setup on the mikrotik router.
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Well, if doesn't work then unplugging Ethernet cable from Huawei WAN port will work. Restarting Huawei is essential, as there is no true failover option.

Port forwarding is not an issue due to the DMZ option on Huawei routers, see my first reply.
 
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Guys: What control do you have over DSL modem IP address in bridge mode? If you do, then some other configuration is possible (only one Mikrotik WAN port is needed).

- set LAN/WAN port on the Huawei to "LAN only"
- configure modem, Huawei LAN and Mikrotik WAN port IP addresses in the same subnet (by example 192.168.8.x). Disable DHCP servers on this LAN segment or keep one running, but these IP addresses must be outside DHCP range.
- set DMZ option on the Huawei for Mikrotik as usual
- connect both DSL modem and Mikrotik WAN port to the Huawei by cables
- usual configuration is made on Mikrotik (DHCP, DNS, port forwarding, PPPoE dialing for DSL modem). For OP it would need to to define different gateway for each LAN subnet. For tRoN, simply setting up default gateway metric parameter lower value for cellular connection than DSL modem will make automatic preference for cellular a magic.

It is Sunday night, sorry if suggestion is a bit insane. :)
 
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sajunky said:
Guys: What control do you have over DSL modem IP address in bridge mode? If you do, then some other configuration is possible (only one Mikrotik WAN port is needed).

- set LAN/WAN port on the Huawei to "LAN only"
- configure modem, Huawei LAN and Mikrotik WAN port IP addresses in the same subnet (by example 192.168.8.x). Disable DHCP servers on this LAN segment or keep one running, but these IP addresses must be outside DHCP range.
- set DMZ option on the Huawei for Mikrotik as usual
- connect both DSL modem and Mikrotik WAN port to the Huawei by cables
- usual configuration is made on Mikrotik (DHCP, DNS, port forwarding, PPPoE dialing for DSL modem). For OP it would need to to define different gateway for each LAN subnet. For tRoN, simply setting up default gateway metric parameter lower value for cellular connection than DSL modem will make automatic preference for cellular a magic.

It is Sunday night, sorry if suggestion is a bit insane. :)
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Booked marked - Thank you
 
Hey Guys

Apologies for hi-jacking this post somewhat. I have a similar question regarding the Huawei B618, however I wish to connect it to an Asus RT-AC68U wireless router. The reason for this is the fact that this particular router has a Traffic Analyzer feature within the ASUSWRT firmware which allows one to get detailed information on all the connected devices, connections and bandwidth usage.

I see most people who have used the Asus RT-AC68U with separate xDSL modems, have opted to configure the modem in bridge mode to let the Asus do everything. From what I can see, the Huawei does not have the option to be set up in bridge mode.

If I connect one of the Huawei's LANs to I assume should be the WAN on the ASUS, should I leave the Huawei's DCHP on to assign an IP to the Asus in turn have the latter's DCHP (perhaps another subnet?) handle client connections as everything will be connecting wireless? Will this setup result in double NAT-ing? Also, will this setup allow the traffic analyzer to work as intended as in theory it should be monitoring connected clients' traffic going through the Asus' WAN interface.

If I have this all wrong and should set this up differently, please advise. Thank you in advance.
 
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@ Bernie if i understand correctly you want one on your 3 subnets on the mikrotik to route just through the huawei LTE router? If so this is a very simple setup on the mikrotik. You can route the other 2 subnets through the ADSL or which way ever as well. PM me for assistance.
 
I need some help please. I currently have a TP-LINK adsl router with some port forwarding set up to block 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.2.2 traffic reaching those IP's so I route them to fake IP. I also use the router as dhcp to give custom dns server IP's so my smart dns service and streaming will work. Now I got my Huawei b618 router but it's dhcp options are useless and it can't port forward like I need. So if need something small to act as a dhcp server and can do the same port forwarding. Any suggestions?
 
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I need some help please. I currently have a TP-LINK adsl router with some port forwarding set up to block 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.2.2 traffic reaching those IP's so I route them to fake IP. I also use the router as dhcp to give custom dns server IP's so my smart dns service and streaming will work. Now I got my Huawei b618 router but it's dhcp options are useless and it can't port forward like I need. So if need something small to act as a dhcp server and can do the same port forwarding. Any suggestions?
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Why do you block 8.8.2 2?
 
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