New MikroTik User here, setup question

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I have the RB2011, Our intent is to connect our WAN provider to the fast ethernet ports (ether6 - 10) since they are only fast ethernet and connect the LAN to ports (ether1-5) the Gig ports.

I finally got the default config moved out of the way with the bridge that was setup across ether2-10 and I have my first WAN connection in ether6, it’s getting an IP from the ISP modem and a route is dynamically added, all good.

Now I add my local network and a laptop to ether5, I’m using static IP addresses here. I can see the IP I assigned to ether5 from my laptop however I cannot ping the ISP side of the network. I have no NAT or firewall rules currently in place.

eth5 - 172.16.0.1 ( laptop 172.16.0.2)
eth6 - 192.168.0.2 (ISP modem 192.168.0.1)

Does this have something to do with the switch chips and that eth1-5 are on switch1 and eth6-10 are on switch2?

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Could you post /export compact so we can see exactly what you have?

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Amateur mistake on my part. I had disabled both default NAT rules, however without a masquerade NAT running on the outbound port the ISP modem didn’t know where to return my packets.

I’m good now. Thanks