IP Route Confusion

Why is tcpdump indicating that traffic destined for a lan connected cascaded router is still going out on wan interface?

I have a static route configured on the main router with target 192.168.6.1/24 and gateway 192.168.5.200 (lan ip of cascaded router).

I want all traffic originating from main router lan hosts destined for the subnet 192.168.6.1/24 to be forwarded to the cascaded router, but tcpdump on the main router indicates that outgoing packets from 192.168.5.x (phone IP) destined for 192.168.6.x (host on cascaded router) are still exiting on wan interface of main router.

Sorry for the messy post, don't have my laptop right now.

possibly because you're specifying a host here, not a full subnet...
try making the route for 192.168.6.0/24 via 192.168.5.200

If that doesn't fix the problem, can you show a diagram of topology and your routing table?

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