Policy Routing in RouterOS 3.x

Using mangle is not required for policy (aka static) routing with RouterOS 3.x. This is an example of routing between networks without using mangle.

The example network setup:

Static routes and rules must be added to tell router1 that the 192.168.22.0/24 subnet is accessible via router2 and to tell router2 that the 192.168.20.0/24 subnet is accessible through router1.

On router1:

/ip address add address=192.168.20.1/24 interface=ether2
/ip address add address=192.168.21.1/24 interface=ether1
/ip route add dst-address=192.168.22.0/24 gateway=192.168.21.2 disabled=no
/ip route rule add dst-address=192.168.22.0/24 action=lookup table=main

yields the following routing table from /ip route print

#      DST-ADDRESS        PREF-SRC        GATEWAY-STATE GATEWAY                       DISTANCE INTERFACE              
0 ADC  192.168.20.0/24    192.168.20.1                                                0        ether2                 
1 ADC  192.168.21.0/24    192.168.21.1                                                0        ether1                 
2 A S  192.168.22.0/24                    reachable     192.168.21.2                  1        ether1  

On router2:

/ip address add address=192.168.21.2/24 interface=ether3
/ip address add address=192.168.22.1/24 interface=wlan1
/ip route add dst-address=192.168.20.0/24 gateway=192.168.21.1 disabled=no
/ip route rule add dst-address=192.168.20.0/24 action=lookup table=main

yields the following from /ip route print

#      DST-ADDRESS        PREF-SRC        GATEWAY-STATE GATEWAY                    DISTANCE INTERFACE          
0 A S  192.168.20.0/24                    reachable     192.168.21.1               1        ether3             
1 ADC  192.168.21.0/24    192.168.21.2                                             0        ether3             
2 ADC  192.168.22.0/24    192.168.22.1                                             0        wlan1              

Now client1 can ping client2.