Static Routing in XP

[emogoch]

Hey there,

So I've been considering taking advantage of the fact that my motherboard on my desktop has dual-NICS and my server box has two NICS as well. Rather than just having the one line from each goign to the router (and to the net), I was thinking of setting up a cross-over connection between the two machines, thus preventing file transfer between the two machiens from having to go over the whole network.

Who knows how I can set up a permanent static route so that all requests to my server will go through the cross over conenction rather than the global one?

 

[nilness]

Turn on File and Printer Sharing for the crossover connection and turn it off on the connection to the router.

 

[tiro]

Or setup a ftp-server on your server box.
and just connect over the crossover-ip.

 

[emogoch]

I do more than jsut file-share across the line. Server runs a data base, web stuff, etc, and I want to have it so all traffic that routes directly between the two machines (going both ways) goes over the cross-over connection, ratehr than the stadard line going to the rest of the network/internet (i.e. all traffic for 192.168.1.200 put on eth1).

Anyone got more suggestions?