Traffic does get redirected - not routed

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Hi!

I am having a strange issue with a “non-optimal” setup:

  • Client has default gateway to Mikrotik-Router
  • Mikrotik Router has to send data to another router in the same Layer2-network with Internet uplink.

ALL three devices are in the same network!

What I see:

  • The first packet is sent from client to MT-router and correctly forwarded to the internet-router
  • The next packages are sent directly to the internet router!
    → If I shutdown the MT-router after the first packet, the traffic keeps flowing

/ip/settings → redirects are disabled

Can you give me a hint, why this happens and how I can stop it?

Thank you and best wishes
Stril

2

That is actually the correct behavior.
You can disable redirects using the IP->Settings “Send Redirects” setting, the setting only has effect after a reboot of the router, you probably have not done that yet.

3

Hi!

Thank you for your answer!

I did not find any hint on a needed reboot in the wiki/docs.
Now, everything looks great…