penguinforce wrote:
>I'm definitely starting on my own PC using the loopback interface, and
>I have a second box on my home network to play with as well.
>
>But my goal is to write a peer-to-peer application, and I want to
>study ways of initiating connections between peers that sit behind
>NATs (using STUN, etc.). It's a pretty interesting problem. That's
>why I need access to a box with a "real" IP address, that'll run my
>servers.
>
>
>
You can still do all that on a single physical machine. What is it
exactly you dont think can be handled by the VM approach? .
The other thing that might work, sans VM technology, is to stick a whole
bunch of NICs in one machine, plug them into a single HUB and give them
all different IP's. So long as you are talking IP on different network
addresses you can have 1 source machine on 1 NIC, 2 NICs providing NAT
in and out and the 4th being the target all on the same physical LAN and
each app on each interface wont be any the wiser.
Maybe you should provide us with a more detailed description - as close
to a network diagram as you can do in plain text.
That'll help. Because end of the day, having it all under one desk
makes it easier.
cGull
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