I am trying to set up a pc as a mt router. i am going word for word through the basic setup in the how-to on the Mikrotik website. I have managed to go as far as install the os, give my 2 network nic’s ip addresses. But now the tutorial says i cannot have any connection outside the router or to the internet until i do one of two tasks which are either set up masquerading in the firewall or set up nat. When i try to set up masquerading some of the command line is not recognised. when i try to enter in the command “src-nat” i get the following result…“no such command or directory”. what am i doing wrong? i have reinstalled the os several times but to no avail. btw i am on the 24hour full version. Pleazzz help, it is bugging me.
Try /ip firewall nat add chain=srcnat out-interface=ether1 src-address=192.168.0.0/24 action=masquerade
obviously you should replace out-interface and src-address to reflect your setup
Once more: http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/guide/basic.
There is nothing there at the link you gave. What is it supposed to be.
Hi cabana, i have my ether1(public) interface given the ip address of 192.168.1.217/24, the ip of my dsl router is 192.168.1.1, so would i replace src-address=192.168.0.0/24 with 192.168.1.217/24?
Correct url should bet without dot 
→ http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/guide/basic