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My global IP address is 192.168.1.xxx?

I am using Ubuntu and found out that my global IP address is… It's not global. Do not pay much attention to scope global; that field within 'ip addr' never had any significance to IPv4 entries (and ...
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Subnet or Not with 20 mask?

Yes. If the subnet mask is smaller than 255.255.252.0 (CIDR /22) all devices with IP addresses 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x belong to the same subnet and don't need a router to communicate with each ...
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How routing works on Internet

So your question is awfully broad as stated, so I'll barely scratch the surface, but I think the thing you are missing is that the route is not decided in advance (in fact multiple packets in a ...
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How can I add a permanent IP routes that survives a network restart (systemd-networkd)?

It looks like you are running netplan (see second line of your log output), which creates config files in /run/systemd/network/ for systemd-networkd to use, which means your /etc/systemd/network/ens3....
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How routing works on Internet

The $30 home router does a lot less then you may think. Cutting it down to its minimal requirement it needs to Be able to read the ethernet frame and identify the destination ip of the traffic (and ...
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Why a packet is sent with a wrong source IP address when setting fwmark using iptables mangle to change routing table?

First an explanation of what you are experiencing and why it behaves like that: When the application generates the packet, the fwmark is not set yet. Since the application does not specify a source IP,...
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Resolving IP conflicts when connected to an OpenVPN server

Yes, extremely well known problem, and therefore it has a very proven simple solution. Renumber one of networks so they don't clash. This is by far most recommended solution and if you don't have any ...
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is it possible that packet loss could be causing VoIP software to fail?

Yes and no! Its possible, but unlikely the issue here. Packet loss CAN cause failures, but this almost certainly not the case here. A few things to unpack first - VOIP typically uses UDP which is &...
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Why Ubuntu prefers RA route to directly connected interface?

The OS used in this issue is Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS which is using systemd-networkd 249.11-0ubuntu3.4. According to the man page, it should not add RA with a metric of 100. It should be 1024 by default: ...
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How to recover connectivity to remote PC after messing IP settings sharing vEthernet (WSL) adapter to my physical one instead of the other way around

A gateway is not needed to reach addresses that are on the machine's own subnet, so you need to find a way to make your VNC connection appear as if it's coming from the router's LAN IP address instead ...
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Determine which IP address will be used for default route in Powershell

For PowerShell (at least the built-in PowerShell 5) you have Find-NetRoute. You do have to specify the destination you want to determine a route for, and optionally also the source address – the tool ...
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Subnet or Not with 20 mask?

can 192.168.2.x network use the 192.168.1.1 gateway because of the 20 mask? Yes, because they are not separate networks – both addresses are within the same 192.168.0.0/20 network. You're too used to ...
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Routing WireGuard peer's traffic via another peer

The via <gw> part of your route cannot do anything here, as WireGuard is a L3 tunnel which doesn't carry any L2 (MAC) addressing inside. Instead the WireGuard interface itself selects which peer ...
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How routing works on Internet

But how the router (e.g. this simple router in home bought for 30$) can know all appropriate hops that will lead the HTTP request to appropriate machine? In your case, as a residential customer – it ...
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With Two WireGuard VPN interface clients, route dummy iface via VPN0 and normal eth0 iface via VPN1, is it possible?

Assuming you mean incoming traffic on eth0 and Dummy should be forwarded via respective wireguard ifc: ip rule add iif Dummy lookup 100 prio 100 ip route add default via a1.a2.a3.a4 dev VPN0 table 100 ...
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Resolving IP conflicts when connected to an OpenVPN server

If I connect to my home network using OpenVPN (tap, not tun) and try to access my machine on (for example) 192.168.1.197, I'm pretty sure my client won't know where to route these packets as the same ...
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pfSense and OpenVPN client but traffic exits through the WAN interface

Now my problem is that currently all my local network traffic goes through the WAN interface, I want to send packets with a destination IP address that is in a firewall alias group through the VPN ...
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Ethernet device not reachable when WIFI is on

It sounds like your IoT device and your Mac's Ethernet interface are on a standalone Ethernet LAN, which is not actually connected to your larger home LAN that your Wi-Fi is attached to. Unfortunately ...
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traceroute does not show the network my public ip is in

The NAT gateway handling your public IP address, as well as the next-hop router beyond it, also have other IP addresses they use. Routers always have multiple IP addresses. As long as they send their ...
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Routing table behaviour coupled with bound sockets - unexpected behaviour

When binding to the interface, unless adequate routes are found on this interface and then reused (for their gateway), the packet is always emitted to the interface even without proper route. So this ...
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Allow access from 192.168.1.* to 192.168.2.*

Your current problem is the following (in layman's terms): Router 2 sends all destination IPs outside of 192.168.2.0/24 (or with whatever subnet mask you are using, I assume it's 24 bits) to router 1. ...
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Provide access to the Internet via NAT on the one router from the network separated by another router

According to mr. @u1686_grawity's recommendations in the comments, I've checked with tcpdump all the interfaces in my network topology and it appeared that there were no route to 192.168.57.0/27 on ...
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VPN client cannot access network behind VPN server(wireguard)

The post Can't reach networks behind Wireguard VPN server. Split-tunneligt config on client has this answer : Solution was quiet simple. There is no need of any scripts to get split-tunneling. 1. Add ...
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access second router network from the first router

Your route seems to be correct; most likely as TomYan mentioned the problem is with the router's firewall configuration. Practically every "home wireless router" is built with the assumption ...
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IP Routes to connect to every subnets in the local network

Would it be possible to create IP routes to get all the packets in my local network without changing the IP address and the subnet ? No, routes will not help you get all the packets. They only help ...
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How do I connect two LANs via routing?

You're likely asking for Ethernet Bridging, described as: Ethernet bridging essentially involves combining an ethernet interface with one or more virtual TAP interfaces and bridging them together ...
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Access Devices On Different Subnet

I'm going to assume you mislabeled the box from the ISP and that it's not merely a modem, but actually a home gateway router (with integrated modem) that does NAT and DHCP for your LAN. That is, I ...
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Ubuntu VM gets "destination host unreachable" for network, yet host is able to reach network

I have no idea why this was necessary or if this was the right way to go about this, but I solved it by manually adding a route: Site A: sudo ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 172.20.0.1 Site B: sudo ip ...
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Home network traffic monitoring and routing solutions?

Regarding port forwarding I came across this piece of software called ngrok, which enables me to do exactly the thing I want. My only concern is that it uses their external DNS servers in order to ...
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nftables: isolate VLANs with some exceptions

You really don't need any special tables or chains: Start with the default forward chain in the default 'inet filter' table that your OS usually fills in in the distributed /etc/nftables.conf example ...
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