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pprindeville
Feb 01, 2026Aspirant
M6 and IP-passthrough with routable static IP
I have an M6 Pro (MR6550) and a T-Mobile business internet account, and I'm unable to use the M6 in passthrough mode. The M6 (the hotspot) does some pretty inexplicable things. Like ARP my firew...
pprindeville
Feb 01, 2026Aspirant
It should be operating at layer 2 on the Ethernet side, and layer 3 on the 4G/5G side.
And when I say "operating at [...] layer 3 on the 4G/5G side", I mean stripping the Ethernet encapsulation of 0x800 packets and forwarding them over the radio. Easy peasy.