Hi Neil

>OK, get the MAC address of LAN Card #2 and reserve it in the DHCP of the router, it will then hand out the same IP address to that NIC all the time along with the correct gateway & DNS addresses.

Thanks for the details, but I am not sure about the router part. This is just a couple of computers connecting to each other. Where can I set the DHCP and do I have to do it on both the computers?

Sorry about being slow.