Tips and Answers: Specify Windows XP Network Connections

The situation is this: I have a wireless router connected to the cable modem. My two computers are connected to the Internet via a wireless network card. At the same time, I want to use a Gigabit NIC to connect the two computers to point-to-point (P2P). This wireless router uses DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) with a network address of 192.168.0.x. I manually set up two wired network cards in this 192.168.1.x network.

For some reason, Windows XP
uses a wired connection as an internet connection instead of a wireless connection. In this way, all I have to do is to make the wireless connection between the two computers Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). This requires Windows to use a wireless connection as an Internet connection.

I want to use a Gigabit NIC as a P2P connection because I have to transfer large files back and forth. However, I don't like to turn on the ICS feature. Is there a better way to build such a network?

A: To solve this problem, one of the following two measures should be taken.

First, I will change the binding settings of this network card to the default connection to the wireless network
. You can change this setting by right-clicking on "Network Neighborhood" and selecting the "Properties" menu. In the Network Properties dialog, there is a menu item called Advanced. Select Advanced and then select Advanced Settings. There, you will see the order in which the network-bound NICs work. You can prioritize these cards based on which network card you need to have the highest priority. I suggest you change this to a wireless network.

Then, I suggest that you change the routing of the NIC to the network address of the other NIC by default, if the destination IP address is in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. You can do this by opening a command prompt on the desktop of each computer. If you enter a "route print" command in the command prompt window, you will see something like this:

Test information

Add a route with the "Route Add" command, The 192.168.1.0/24 subnet boots to other network cards. For example, route ADD 192.168.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.10 [IP address of another machine] METRIC 1 IF 2. This command will by default cause the rest of the communication to pass through another network card. I hope this solves your problem and allows you to configure your machine the way you like.