Use GL-XE300C4 as modem only

Routers 4G LTE, 5G NR, USB modems
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I have a main router/firewall device that supports 2 WAN ports. I have a fixed cable internet as my main internet connection and I want to use the XE300 as my 2nd failover WAN connection, but without doing double NAT.
This is my use case.

When I go on holiday, I take the XE300C4 with me as a mobile wifi device and buy a local sim car into it. This way I can walk around and not have to buy 5 sim cards for the whole family. When I take it with me, I would put it back into normal router mode.

thankyou
Daniel

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OK, got it, thank you very much!

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@Hoff - do you know when the passthrough feature will make it to the production firmware?

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We don’t make a plan for this function, this function may be added next year.

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Hello team. Would you be kind enough to provide a refreshed 3.217 test firmware download including this IP Pass-through beta feature?

Model: GL-XE300 Puli

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What is the location of this firmware? I tried downloading this and didn’t see the passthrough feature:

https://dl.gl-inet.com/?model=xe300&type=beta

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I’m also interested in using my puli for ip passthrough. I have unifi dream machine pro se which has my main cable internet connected to it. My goal is to use the puli with a cellular SIM card in it as a failover. Please let me know if this functionality is available or I need to test the beta firmware. I can test the beta firmware if available. Thank you

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I am also interested in this feature for the GL-XE300 Puli :slight_smile:
Same use-case as others, I’d like to use as a failover without having to touch my main router configuration and I use multiple outbound IPs for multiple services

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Same use case as from the folks above. Would love to have this feature implemented natively.

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Sorry, no, I will give your requirement to our software product manager, I will help to push our team add this function. @kingsleyaddo @ayezutov

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in advanced options i have found the lan option to set bridged mode , but i cant get it to work

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what about it isn’t working?

GL - is there an updated timeline for XE300 support? is it at all possible through a current beta build, or are those old posts and it’s been more recently removed?

thank you

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@Hoff is there any update to this? my business would very much love to use the Puli as a 4g modem only and disable the routing capabilities. We would love a 5g as well, but it’s a bit too expensive still for our residential clients (RVs and Food trucks).

@dbanyasz were you able to get the firmware from GL.iNet?

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Please refer to this link: GL-X3000 - Bridge Mode WAN IP Passthrough

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@retnuh
Please refer to this link: GL-X3000 - Bridge Mode WAN IP Passthrough

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That thread is for the bigger XE3000
We are interested in getting the XE300 set up to do 4g bridge mode (modem only setup).

Would the command there work on the XE300 as well?

We have an experimental feature. You can try enabling it via SSH.
We cannot yet guarantee its availability in most environments. If it fails, press and hold the reset button next to the device’s SIM slot for 4s to switch back to router mode.

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”}],“id”:1}’

Please note, it must use Ethernet 1 if you need passthrough from Ethernet cable and it may not work if any of the following settings are enabled Tethering, Drop-In Gateway mode, IPv6, manually set DNS, Multi-WAN set to load balanced mode, WAN port set as LAN, VPN policy is in use, Any firewall setting has been added, MAC address has been set manually.

Essentially; reset the device, then only setup the initial admin / root password, then send that command in via ssh.