Hello,
First of all, please excuse me for the English post, but I am not a Polish language speaker. But I have found bez-kabli has the best support for many LTE Routers, of course disregarding the Australian Optus forum, they have good stuff as well.
I have a Huawei B818, I have bought it on Allegro, and I use it to replace an old Huawei E5186s-22a. I used to use the E5186 with an E3 firmware, which allowed me to use it in Bridge Mode. I had the first port connected to the WiFi Router, and one of the other ports connected to a RPi to be able to access the Web interface of the E5186. It worked well with the E5186, I could access the RPi through the WiFi on the local network, and the RPi was able to access the E5186's web interface, no issues.
Now as I have the B818, which is an amazing device regarding speed on LTE+, I have the option out of the box to set it to Bridge Mode. I can connect the Wifi Router to the B818's first port, and the internet works through that, but when I try to connect the RPi to the second LAN port, the RPi is unable to access the Web Interface, it is even unable to ping the B818, seems like that the second LAN port is completely turned off.
If I shut down the Router, then the RPi can connect the B818 through the second LAN port, but then the Router when turned on is not able to get the WAN IP from the B818.
Does any of you know a way, how the B818 can be accessed when it is in Bridge Mode?
I've tried to contact Huawei Support, but that was only a waste of time, the lady, Marzena K, was just repeating like a parrot, that the B818 has came from Play and I have to contact Play for configuration setting, they are not supporting it.
I haven't bought the device from Play, I haven't even got any contact to Play, the device hasn't even got any mark, that it would have any connection with Play, neither on the box or on the device, or in the Web interface. I use the device with an Orange card. But Huawei support doesn't give any answer to my question. I hope someone here has some idea how to do it...
Any advice appreciated! Thanks for the help in advance!
Best Regards,
GSzabados