Networking – Access Web App on Linux Server from Laptop via Network Bridge Without Router

Your subnet mask may be wrong - try 255.255.255.240 you can use a online subnet calculator to work it out. Also, i think you should set the default gateway on one system as the other system's ip address - this setup has worked for me before

If you have a gig-e ethernet adaptor on any one or both ends, you shouldn't need a crossover adaptor.

Static route is the main method, but you're not getting the right parameters.

• A route tells the first router that a certain subnet is reachable through the 2nd router – which means the "gateway" must be the 2nd router's IP address from the 1st router's perspective.

  So in your situation, "Gateway IP" must be 192.168.0.x address belonging to the Archer's "WAN" interface, since that's the one directly attached to D-Link.

• As for the "Destination" address, 192.168.1.1/32 isn't wrong, but it is also not very useful: it only lets you reach the 2nd router itself, but not the remainder of the 192.168.1.x subnet.

  In most cases, you would want 192.168.1.0/24 as the destination instead.

(Why were your attempted gateways wrong? Well, 192.168.0.1 won't work because that's the first router itself, and telling it to route something through itself would just create a tight loop.

And the 1st attempt, 192.168.1.1, won't work because the D-Link doesn't know where that address is yet – after all, you're just adding a route to it right now; it's a catch-22.)

Finally, even after configuring the right routes, remember to check the Archer's firewall – very likely it will be blocking inbound connections by default.