Connect PC to controller with static IP using Ethernet?

I want to connect a STM32F429ZI Nucleo board to a PC using an ethernet cable, but without using a router to bridge them. The Nucleo would have static IP and the computer would be a client connecting to it. How would I start going about this? I've done some preliminary work by installing LWIP and assigning a static IP. I had also given the computer a static IP as well. They are using the same subnet. Neither device uses the "gateway" IP that I had given both of them.