Is Bridged WAN connections a thing or should I return this GL-X3000?

[ctownj30]

I bought this purely because I read the below forum post and saw that it was possible to side-load the bridged-WAN connection option.

GL-X3000 - Bridge Mode WAN IP Passthrough

Hi all, Just got a new GL-X3000 router. I am really happy with its 5G performance in upload and download but I haven’t managed to set it up in bridge mode (WAN IP Passthrough). I would like to set-up the GL-X3000 has a modem only. It will be in front of another more powerful router that will handle the DHCP, port forwarding and the firewall. Is that feature already implemented ? If so, how can I use it ? Did anyone manage to set one up with Openwrt modules such as trelay ?

Now it seems that the patch is not supported by the newer firmware (my experience and a few others - Server 500 error on curl request).

Is there any other way and will this be supported ongoing, or should I send this back to Amazon?

PS: My goal is simply to put the X3000 in between my Google Fiber port and my Google WiFi router, with fail-over to 5G via Google Fi - with no double-NAT regardless of the connection. My work requires no double-NAT for VPN.

[bruce]

Hello,

This feature is supported on v4.7.4 of X3000, but if enable this feature you required to SSH to the router, and execute the API commands.

1. Upgrade to v4.7.4
2. SSH to X3000/XE3000:

curl -k http://127.0.0.1/rpc -H 'glinet: 1' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"call","params":["","netmode","set_mode",{"mode":"passthrough","mask":"auto","mac":""}],"id":1}'