Anyone help with a Windows networking question?

[midnight armadillo]

Here's the question...take 2 Windows XP computers. Connect them via a 100 Mb switch to a router using 100 Mbit ports. Also connect them via a Gigabit ethernet crossover cable using separate Gigabit ports.

How would one set up the Windoze networking to have the two PCs talk to each other over the Gigabit cable and talk to the Internet via the 100 Mb switch & router? Thanks! I'm being cheap and am hoping to avoid buying a Gigabit switch since I already have the crossover cable on hand.

[DS1]

1. you have two nics in each box?

[midnight armadillo]

2. yup

The gigabit NIC's were scavenged from old servers at work that were retired for recycling.

[DS1]

3. easy

put the two faster nics on their own subnet or gateway, then make sure to map to a shared folder by using that faster subnet/gateway's ip system. then you get 'net through the slow connection, and gigabit through the fast one.

[midnight armadillo]

4. That sounds good

I could do this in my sleep in Unix, but Windows networking occasionally mystifies me. Thanks for the tip! :toast: