Setting up a small 3 PC HUB-less network wth ICS

[Rollercoaster]

Ok here is the config

PC1 has two onboard NICs (WinXP x64, AMD64 3000+, A8N SLI, 1GB DDR400, 300 GB RAID0
PC1a - Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 gigabit ethernet controller
PC1b - NVIDIA nForce network controller

PC2 has one PCI NIC (Win XP, PIII-1GHZ, VIA Chipset, 256MB SDRAM, 80GB
PC2 - DAVICOM 9102-Based PCI Fast ethernet card

Laptop(PC3) has one onboard NIC (Winxp, Celeron 1.4, Intel915, 768MB DDR333, 40GB
PC3 - REALTEK RTL8139 family PCI fast ethernet card

I dont have a hub so i want to set up a network like

Connection A >> PC3---------------PC1a
Connection B >> PC2---------------PC1b

Also i have a TATA INDICOM Dialup on PC3 so i want internet available on PC1 & PC2 via(Internet connection sharing)-ICS to the above network. i have tried the windows network setup wizard in a variety of configurations and i cannot get neither the network to work fully neither the ICS.

I want all PCs to be accessable thru all other PCs
Also if i can connect the TATA phone to PC2 or PC1 then also the internet is available to other pcs

Can anyone guide me thru...

Presently when i set up the network the PC3 and PC2 are not accesable from each other, i tried creating a bridge on PC1 but then PC1 goes out of the equation.

 

[Keith Sebastian]

Buy a cheap 4 port switch. Should save you a lot of headaches as ICS is buggy and won't always work as advertised. Once you get the switch post here for instructions.

Keith

 

[Rollercoaster]

man with due respect everyone can do it with a hub/swtitch

but i want to set it up without it

gan u get back on that. thankz

 

[thexteam]

This is amazing, we should be trying some combination on the air without a wireless router.

man with due respect everyone can do it with a hub/swtitch

but i want to set it up without it

gan u get back on that. thankz