specifying modem for connections

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Aaron

Hello,

I'm trying to network 2 machines in my home so I don't have
to copy files manually with a USB keychain. One machine, a
desktop, is running FreeBSD (which was a pain to setup, but
I did it) and the other is my laptop, running Windows XP
Home. The laptop has a modem which I use to connect to the
internet, as well as an ethernet card.

I connected a crossover cable from the FreeBSD desktop (I
gave it 192.168.0.10) to the laptop, but when I try to ping
(or otherwise connect) to the desktop, Windows uses the
modem connection and searches the world for an IP that
doesn't exist. How can I tell it to use the Ethernet card
(which it claims is working fine) instead of the modem, and
can I have them both going at once?

Ideally, I'd like to be connected to the internet via the
modem with whatever IP address my ISP gives me, and when I
go to 192.168.0.x the ethernet card is used... but I don't
know how to set this up and searching for info online is
driving me crazy.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
 
I connected a crossover cable from the FreeBSD desktop (I
gave it 192.168.0.10) to the laptop, but when I try to ping
(or otherwise connect) to the desktop, Windows uses the
modem connection and searches the world for an IP that
doesn't exist.
Click to expand...

Turns out the network card in my laptop is faulty - I got a
cheap external one and everything works as expected.
Requests to the subnet mask 255.255.255.0 of my card's IP
address go through the ethernet line. I can ping and
telnet into the other machine with no problems.
 
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