How to force machine to choose a network.

I'm hoping someone can give me some suggestions on how to solve a
problem we're having here at work.

I have two desktop computers (I'll call them A and B).

1. Both A and B are connected to the company LAN via 10BaseT ethernet
cards.

2. A and B are connected to each other via a Firewire network. This
allows us to copy files between the machines significantly faster than
via the company network.

The problem is when copying files or performing other cross-machine
tasks, it seems to be random as to which network is chosen by the
machine. Even though the firewire is showing speeds of 400Mbps and the
company network shows 10Mbps, the machines seem to show no preference
for one over the other.

How can we force the machines to use the Firewire connection when
talking to each other but the company network when communicating with
the other 4000 machines in the company?

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