Simple Network Routing not working

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I have a 5 port Mikrotik router running router OS 5.4.

Have Ethernet1 connected to 192.168.0.0/24 network. Assigned the interface 192.168.0.1/24 all devices on this network have their default gateways configured for 192.168.0.1

Have Ethernet2 assigned 192.168.101.230/24, directly connected to 192.168.101.1, the switch 192.168.101.1 is connected to the 192.168.101.0/24 network.

When I navigate to IP/Routes, I have two DAC routes one for the 192.168.101.0/24 network says reachable, and the other DAC route is for the 192.168.0.0/24 network. These were dynamically discovered.

WHY? Please answer WHY? can I ping from any device on the 192.168.0.0/24 network to any device on the 192.168.101.0/24 network.
BUT I Cannot ping from the 192.168.101.0 network to anything on the 192.168.0.0/24 network.

I have tried adding default route 0.0.0.0/0 for Ethernet1, no go!!
The I added a default route 0.0.0.0/0 for Ethernet2, no go!!
Added default routes for both Ethernet1 & 2 at the same time, no go!!

Added various other routes attempting to pass a ping from the 192.168.101.0/24 network to the 192.168.0.0/24 network.

Nothing seems to allow a ping to pass in both directions on this device, only in one direction.

Does anyone have any suggestions? This is frustrating with something so simple.

Also, this is a basic routing config, I do not want firewall rules, NAT rules, filters or anything else, just a simple division of two networks so broadcast packets will not be forwarded, but devices can be accessed from each network across the router.

Thanks for any help in advance!

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Default gateway for devices in 192.168.101.0/24 network is what? If 192.168.101.230, then it must work. If something else, then it can’t work, unless you add static route to 192.168.0.0/24 via 192.168.101.230 (on all 192.168.101.0/24 devices or their default gateway). But in this case even ping from 192.168.0.0/24 to 192.168.101.0/24 would not work, because reply packets would not know the way either. So it’s a little strange.
Try to explain this part in a little more detail:

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Default gateway on the 192.168.101.0/24 network for all devices is 192.168.101.1 the 192.168.101.1 device has a static route in it that says 192.168.0.0/24 default gateway is 192.168.101.230.

I got it working it was my problem with my laptop configuration. I had a static IP address of 192.168.101.235 with a default gateway of 192.168.101.1, I also had a 192.168.0.10 address assigned under advance to the same adapter, as soon as I removed that address pings started working and passing to all devices on the 192.168.0.0 network.

I removed default routes, and all static routes, and ping in both directions is now working. IP/Route only has the two dynamic routes in the table, and ping work in both directions.

Sob, seriously, thanks for the quick response, it was greatly appreciated!!! :smiley: