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I have following network setup:

  • Main router connecting to internet, with LAN address 192.168.1.254
  • Secondary router connected to first router, with LAN address 192.168.2.1

I have two PC's connected to secondary router, one with Windows 7, another with Windows 98. Both can access the internet, but on Windows 98 i cannot connect directly to first router for some reason (or any other computer on 192.168.1.0/24 network). On Windows 7 everything works fine. What could be cause of that?

Note: secondary router is OpenWRT-converted access point.

duo
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  • Windows 98? Are these on display in a museum? :-) – Phil Jul 03 '18 at 09:32
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    Kinda, I'm a collector of old hardware and operating systems. I'm setting up a gallery of those in my garage :) – duo Jul 03 '18 at 09:34
  • Cool, glad you got it working – Phil Jul 03 '18 at 09:41
  • `Windows 98. Both can access the internet`. Please do not connect such a thing on the Internet. – Esa Jokinen Jul 03 '18 at 09:54
  • @EsaJokinen actually i just needed to be able to connect to other pc's on 192.168.1.0, for file sharing and lan-party purposes ;) what's the problem with windows 98 having access to the internet though? especially behind 3 layers of nat ;D – duo Jul 03 '18 at 10:31
  • NAT doesn't really help when the Windows 98 machine gets the malicious content from the Internet using outbound connections. At least do not surf the Internet. – Esa Jokinen Jul 03 '18 at 10:40
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    @EsaJokinen I'm aware of the danger, I'm not planning using it for surfing ;) – duo Jul 04 '18 at 11:52

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Problem solved. Turned out that the TCP/IP protocol on Dial-up card was set to static address on 192.168.1.0/24 network.

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