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bnwmuppet

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There are 2 separate internet connections in my house, one which I solely use, and one which everyone else in the house uses. These are currently managed by 2 separate modem routers.

However, there is a windows-based fileserver with a large amount of files located on the larger network, that I would like to be able to access from my PC.

I have currently set this up,

[MY PC](192.168.1.2)<-->[ROUTER 1](192.168.1.1)(LAN)<---->(LAN)(192.168.1.99)[ROUTER 3](192.168.2.99)(WAN)<---->(LAN)[ROUTER 2](192.168.2.1)<-->[FILESERVER](192.168.2.16)

and set up static routes to access each network via ROUTER 3.

From my PC I can ping ROUTER 2 and receive a response, but receive time-outs when i attempt to ping FILESERVER.

Likewise, when FILESERVER pings ROUTER 1, it receives a response, but time-outs when it tries to ping MY PC.

I have firewalls disabled and both machines are currently in the DMZ for their respective networks.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
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Hard to say because you still have the nasty issue of having NAT involved. One of the machine will always be accessing the other via the routers wan ip.

It maybe simpler to plug both internet routers together and have them use the same lan subnet. You would set your router to say 192.168.1.250 and disable the dhcp. On your pc you would set the default gateway manually to 192.168.1.250. The other router and machine would run normally and would have no knowledge of this other router......assuming you can trust that other people do not manually set theirs to use your router.

This is the problem with consumer "routers". They are not actually routers they are gateways that can take a single wan ip and translate it to a single...
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Hard to say because you still have the nasty issue of having NAT involved. One of the machine will always be accessing the other via the routers wan ip.

It maybe simpler to plug both internet routers together and have them use the same lan subnet. You would set your router to say 192.168.1.250 and disable the dhcp. On your pc you would set the default gateway manually to 192.168.1.250. The other router and machine would run normally and would have no knowledge of this other router......assuming you can trust that other people do not manually set theirs to use your router.

This is the problem with consumer "routers". They are not actually routers they are gateways that can take a single wan ip and translate it to a single lan subnet. If you had actual routers this exercise is trivial. If you have the correct devices you might be able to load third party firmware like dd-wrt onto your routers and it will then let you actually route between things.
 
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