Connection to local switch via Mikrotik router jumphost using Ansible

Question

I am using Ansible on my Debian client machine. I am trying to setup inventory file and ansible playbook for showing simple version of local devices from remote site that is behind NAT by using jumphost (bastion) which is my mikrotik/routeros using ssh called "jumphost" and then connect to final local mikrotik routeros switch called "localswitch" I get the following error: "msg": "ssh connection failed: ssh connect failed: Socket error: Connection reset by peer"

Please help by using ansible_ssh_common_args for routeros as jumphost

inventory.yaml

all:
  switches:
    hosts:
      localswitch.company.local:
        vars:
          ansible_ssh_common_args: '-o ProxyCommand="ssh -W %h:%p -q [email protected]"'

playbook.yaml:

- hosts: all
  connection: network_cli
  gather_facts: true
  vars:
    ansible_network_os: routeros
  tasks:
    - name: Print RouterBoard version
      routeros_command:
        commands:
          - /system routerboard print
      register: result

    - name: Display command output
      debug: 
        var: result.stdout_lines

Answer 1

It feels like its not picking up the variable and know to use it correctly. Here is another example to try:

ansible_ssh_common_args='-o ProxyCommand="ssh -p 2222 -W %h:%p -q [email protected]"'

Is the SSH port as well open to the device? Have you tried to add the variable at the playbook level or inventory level and see if it works that way?

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