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Help. I need to share internet between two desktop computers WITHOUT a router or hub, using only a crossover cable.

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October 11, 2014 1:15:19 AM

I’ve been looking for days (over a week now) for a solution to my problem. What I want to do is this:

Share internet from Computer A to Computer B with only a crossover Ethernet cable. No router, no wired hub, just the cable. Both are Windows 7 computers.
I’ve had it set up this way for almost a year, but Computer A’s hard drive recently crashed and I’ve had to replace it with another computer and I lost the instructions that I used before to set it up like this. Here’s what I remember from those instructions, if this will help:

Computer A: (Internet connected PC): One of the ipv’s was set to an IP Address of 192.168.137.1

Computer B: One of the ipv’s was set to 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8

And I remember having to go into Windows firewall and allow some connection. I think there was an issue with this as well where I had to go in to some settings to even make it show the option to allow the connection?

I think I may also have had to go into my broadband modem and make adjustments as well, cannot remember what I did there.

Someone might ask why I want this sort of setup. The reason is this: I cannot use my router because I connect to a VPN for work over Computer B, and the VPN will not allow me to connect with the model of router I have. Also, I don’t have time to go buy a wired hub even if that would work.

This seems like it would be easy for some of you gurus, so please can someone help me?

Thanks in advance.

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October 11, 2014 1:23:50 AM

in network properties 'use allow this computer to share it's connection', you'll also need to set the gateway of the second machine to be the address of the first machine.
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October 11, 2014 4:44:11 AM

SlowBoat2England said:
Computer B: One of the ipv’s was set to 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8


Perhaps you are looking for this:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-intern...

I'm not sure what an ipv is, but you should enable DHCP on computer B (obtain IP address and DNS address automatically).

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October 13, 2014 4:06:06 PM

I suspect "ipv" means either IPv4 (for "legacy" IP addresses like 192.168.1.2) or "IPv6" (for new-style IP addresses in the form of 0:ffff:4::5:6). But @Buddha is right, your ComputerB should be set either to manual IP address on the same network, or as DHCP client.
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