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You could try this;
</p>PC 1 has a ethernet card with a static address of 10.1.1.1; subnet mask 255.0.0.0 and PC 2 has address 10.1.1.2; subnet mask 255.0.0.0. </p></p></p>Make sure that the default gateway is blank on the IP settings on the network cards on both machines.Then on PC 1, open a DOS command window and enter</p>ROUTE ADD 10.1.1.2 MASK 255.255.255.255 10.1.1.1 METRIC 1</p>and on PC 2 enter</p>ROUTE ADD 10.1.1.1 MASK 255.255.255.255 10.1.1.2 METRIC 1</p>You can do a google search for the ROUTE commands in DOS to see what they do.Give it a go and see if it works ok.</p>These commands are not persistant so if something goes horribly wrong then a reboot of both machines will fix it. </p>If it appears to be working OK then reenter the commands but include the -P switch (P for persistant)</p>i.e. ROUTE -P ADD 10.1.1.1 etc.</p>BTW the commands are not case sensitive, I've only written them in capitals for clarity</p></p>

</p>What the heck has happened to the formatting on this post? I hope you can read it ok!