After reading the CRS documentation and Switching with RouterOS / CRS Questions, I have given up on the CRS125 altogether, as it is obviously not ready for production. And I do not believe it will be as reliable as the pfSense + hp v1910 that are currently in place and working well without need for rebooting or unplugging over 5 months now.
I will unplug the crs125 and put in box and not think consider how the $200+ was a waste … or the precious after hours spent trying to make this work.
CTrain, thanks for trying to help.