I've gotten my grubby hands on my first MikroTik router, and the configuration has somewhat stumped me. I've followed the
first time config procedure pretty closely, successfully created the local bridge, interface lists for WAN and LAN, got the DHCP server and client running. It seems that the outgoing connections are fine - the router gets an IP address, and can ping various servers on the web. However, while the LAN devices get their IP addresses and can reach the router, they can't get connection to anything outside the LAN (internet or otherwise). Smells like a NAT issue, but I do have this as my only NAT rule, and as far as I understand, that's all that should be there for basic functionality:
0 chain=srcnat action=masquerade out-interface-list=WAN log=no log-prefix="" ipsec-policy=out,none
To make matters more clear, this router is connected to the combo modem-router-AP device given out by the ISP. That combo device does DHCP of its own, and lives at 192.168.1.1 in its own network. (I'm aware it would be better practice to disable every smart bit on the ISP's router and let the RB2011 handle DHCP and everything else, but due to reasons outside the scope of this topic, I can't do that quite yet). The RB2011 is intended to have a LAN (wired+wireless) of its own, and live at 192.168.2.2 in that LAN.
Excuse me if I am typing nonsense, all of my previous networking experience comes from torturing an old consumer router with OpenWrt, and that was a plug-and-play experience compared to this.