[AusNOG] Help with Mikrotik + Huawei E8372

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 01:17 +0000, Darren Moss wrote:
> I have purchased a bunch of new Huawei E8372 LTE dongles
> [...]
> Having all sorts of dramas configuring with Mikrotik RB devices...
> everything looks normal, device appears up, DHCP allocates a local IP
> but no internet access.

As avinash said, you could try NATing the interface (srcnat):

/ip firewall nat
add chain=srcnat \
    action=masquerade \
    to-addresses=0.0.0.0 \ 
    out-interface=dongle_interface

However, nothing will work if the dongle isn't registering with the
network, so are the right LEDs lit? Generally a steady LED indicates
connection (or random flickering, but not rhythmic flashing).

To set it up as a bridge you will probably need to connect to the
dongle from a PC to reconfigure it.

When you get it work, blog it and post the link :-)

Regards, K.

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