HUAWEI B528 Port Fowarding?

[Didgey]

Does anyone know where the Port Forwarding option is on this router? I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find it. 

I’ve looked at other similar routers online and they have it under security-virtual server or security-port forward. But it’s no where to be seen on the B528.

I have, however, found the option to enable UPnP and this has auto ported the UDP to my Xbox but not the TCP, still leaving me with a Strict NAT. (Although even after doing this I’ll end up with a Strict NAT, but a guys gotta try!)  All help appreciated. 

Steve

[vegtable]

I use Andrews & Arnolds L2TP. Not sure if I can add link but will try:

https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/l2tp-service/

You will either need to establish the tunel from your computer or from a router. You will not be able to establish the taunel on a games console if that is what you are trying to do. By establishing the tunel on a router all devices on your LAN can use the tunel.

I am not aware of any domestic cellular capable routers that have the smarts so you need to place another router behind your cellular router - connect the 2nd routers WAN port to one of the LAN ports on the Huawei router. Your second router also needs to be clever enough to establish the tunel. Not sure which can but I know ones runing OpenWRT and PFSense can. Not sure about DDWRT - you might have to do some research. I am sure some of the Ubiquity routers can also do L2TP. GL.Inet sell some very cheap routers that run OpenWRT and would e suitable. The 2nd router does not need to be very powerful as the A&A L2TP tunel isn't encrypted (the router does not have to do encryption and decryption). A&A website has instructions for both OpenWRT and PFSense.

I use a PFSense based router for what it is worth.

[Didgey]

Wow! Well that all sounds very technical. I'll certainly have to do some research into this. It does concern me that it's going to be another monthly charge and it's also capped at 1TB, but if it works it could do the trick for the short term if nothing else. 

Thank you for going to the trouble to explain all that. 😊

[vegtable]

If you get a suitable router (and I don't know enough about OpenWRT, DDWRT or Uniquiti to know how to do it) but I know it is easyish on PFSense - you can 'split tunel' which means only some of your traffic uses the tunel. In my case any P2P traffic goes down a separate encrypted VPN (don't want anybody spying on my Linux distribution downloads) and any Usenet traffic does not use the tunel. Also, my cloud backup also does not use the tunel. Usenet and cloudbackup are the data hogs but as neither require incomming connections then it is fine to route them outside of the tunel so the 1TB cap is no issue for me.

If you want to go down the split tunneling route I would recommend a PFSense over the others. I use a PCEngines board - something like: https://linitx.com/product/linitx-apu2-d2-2gb-(3nic+usb+rtc)-with-pfsense-pre-configured-kit/15317. Not worth getting the WIFI option on these - just use an external cheap wireless access point istead. 2GB is enough RAM and the 16GB SSD is big enough. You can sometime pick up the older PCEngines ALIX boards quite cheap on eBay and that would probably do you. There are loads of cheap industrial PCs as well that you could use but the PCEngines route is tried and tested. If you do go down the industrial PC route make sure it has Intel network interfaces and AES harware encryption built in!

Vodafone do start to winge if you reach 2.5TB a month (apparently - I have not used that much data in a month)  and you need to call them up to get your connection back. 

[Didgey]

So much for "Unlimited" then! Lol

[10hartz]

Hi, has anything been resolved on this? The settings are very different to the other types of Huawei LTE Routers. Has no option for virtual server for port forwarding like the rest.

Let me know.

Thanks, Zak