How communicate between router without involving WAN

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Following is my network diagram

Please it will be helpful if you tell how to do it in winbox as i am a beginner

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What is the purpose of joining the two routers, clearly stated requirements drive the config.
In other words describe the user traffic that needs to be executed.

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Its just i want that traffic from 192.168.1.0/24 can reach 192.168.2.0/24 and vice versa with out the involvement of WAM

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In a few words:

  1. remove ether5 from list of bridge ports on both routers
  2. assign IP addresses to ether5 on both routers. Use e.g. 192.168.42.1/30 on M1 and 192.168.42.2/30 on M2
  3. add static routes to reach other LAN via opposite router.
    E.g. on M1 do /ip/route/add dst-address=192.168.1.0/24 gateway=192.168.42.2 and likewise on M2 do /ip/route/add dst-address=192.168.2.0/24 gateway=192.168.42.1
  4. add firewall rules which will govern connectivity between both subnets, according to default setup (and default firewall rules) full connectivity between the both LANs will be allowed
  5. optionally adjust settings on on-device firewalls (e.g. windows firewall) to allow connection from the “opposite LAN”, by default those only allow connections which are coming from “own” subnet.
  6. connect both ether5 ports with an appropriate UTP patch cable
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Shouldn’t there also be
7. add ether5 on both routers to WAN interface list and remove from LAN (if present)

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Well, my post starts with “in a few words” :wink:.

Of course actual list of things to do greatly depends on actual configuration of both routers and wanted end state (from functional point of view). I was itemizing things based on default config. And in default config, only bridge interface is member of LAN interface list. As to adding ether5 to WAN interface list … it really depends on what one wants to do. Probably not as also default src-nat masquerade works on traffic going out through WAN but I guess @OP would actually like to connect both LANs a bit tighter than internet alone allows … so no NAT between both subnets and a bit less tight firewall rules.

But if the bullet you suggested should be on the list, then by all means it should be well above the bullet which tells to connect router ports with UTP patch cable :wink:

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You’re correct (as usual :sunglasses: ).

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Wouldn’t this be similar to the “Simple Static Routing” here (minus the two different WANs instead of the single one on the wiki example):
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Simple_Static_Routing