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To fix this we need to add a route that tells the router what is the next device in the network to reach the destination.  In our example next hop is Router2, so we need to add a route with the gateway that points to the Routers 2 connected address. This type of route is known as a static route:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip route add dst-address=192.168.2.0/24 gateway=172.16.1.2
[admin@MikroTik] > /ip/route> print 
Flags: D - dynamic; X - disabled, I - inactive, A - active; C - connect, S - static, r - ri
p, b - bgp, o - ospf, d - dhcp, v - vpn
Columns: DST-ADDRESS, GATEWAY,       Distance
        DST-ADDRESS    GATEWAY       D
    DAC 10.1.1.0/24    ether1        0
    DAC 172.16.1.0/30  ether2        0
    DAC 192.168.1.0/24 bridge1       0
0   AS  192.168.2.0/24 172.16.1.2    

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[admin@TempTest] /ip/route> print 
Flags: D - dynamic; X - disabled, I - inactive, A - active; C - connect, S - static, r - ri
p, b - bgp, o - ospf, d - dhcp, v - vpn
Columns: DST-ADDRESS, GATEWAY, Distance
#      DST-ADDRESS     GATEWAY      D
   DAd 0.0.0.0/0       10.155.125.1 1
   DAC 10.155.125.0/24 ether12      0
   DAC 192.168.1.0/24  vlan2        0

Hardware Offloaded Route

Devices withLayer 3 Hardware Offloading (L3HW, otherwise known as IP switching or HW routing) allows to offload packet routing onto the switch chip. When L3HW is enabled, such routes will display H-flag:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip/route print where static
Flags: A - ACTIVE; s - STATIC, y - COPY; H - HW-OFFLOADED
Columns: DST-ADDRESS, GATEWAY, DISTANCE
#     DST-ADDRESS       GATEWAY         D
0 AsH 0.0.0.0/0         172.16.2.1      1
1 AsH 10.0.0.0/8        10.155.121.254  1
2 AsH 192.168.3.0/24    172.16.2.1      1

By default, all the routes are participating to be hardware candidate routes. To further fine-tune which traffic to offload, there is an option for each IP or IPv6 static route to disable/enable suppress-hw-offload. 

For example, if we know that majority of traffic flows to the network where servers are located, we can enable offloading only to that specific destination:

/ip route set [find where static && dst-address!="192.168.3.0/24"] suppress-hw-offload=yes

Now only the route to 192.168.3.0/24 has H-flag, indicating that it will be the only one eligible to be selected for HW offloading:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip/route print where static
Flags: A - ACTIVE; s - STATIC, y - COPY; H - HW-OFFLOADED
Columns: DST-ADDRESS, GATEWAY, DISTANCE
#     DST-ADDRESS       GATEWAY         D
0 As  0.0.0.0/0         172.16.2.1      1
1 As  10.0.0.0/8        10.155.121.254  1
2 AsH 192.168.3.0/24    172.16.2.1      1

Multipath (ECMP) routes

To implement some setups, such as load balancing, it might be necessary to use more than one path to a given destination.

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