Hi All,
I have two Windows machines connected together with a cross cable.
The machines are in different subnets. Can I get them to communicate
with each other without changing their IP configuration? I can add a
temporary static route. I understand that the best solution would be to
put them both in the same subnet. But, that is unfortunately not an
option available to me.
Have a nice day,
Pradeep
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R Pradeep Chandran wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have two Windows machines connected together with a cross cable.
> The machines are in different subnets. Can I get them to communicate
> with each other without changing their IP configuration? I can add a
> temporary static route. I understand that the best solution would be to
> put them both in the same subnet. But, that is unfortunately not an
> option available to me.
> Have a nice day,
> Pradeep

Haven't done this in a long time, but I think on each machine you need
to add a route to the other machine, using the local machine as the gateway:

ROUTE ADD <other IP> MASK 255.255.255.255 <my IP>