[erlang-questions] Ideas on Distributed Programming on single machine

[Harit Himanshu]

This is really dumb question and I am pretty sure that there is limit to
how much distributed programming could be learnt using single machine(I am
using Mac in this case).

>
> I am reading through Programming Erlang, Chapter 14, Distributed
> Programming where Joe talk about how to run Name Server in distributed mode
> as
>
>
>    1.  I write and test my program in a regular nondistributed Erlang
>    session. This is what we’ve been doing up to now, so it presents no new
>    challenges.
>    2.  I test my program on two different Erlang nodes running on the
>    same computer.
>    3.  I test my program on two different Erlang nodes running on two
>    physically separated computers either in the same local area network or
>    anywhere on the Internet.
>
>
> So, I have reached to the part where #1 and #2 could be tested.
>
> I wanted to check there is absolutely no way to mimic different nodes as
> separate machines (on a single node) to test #3.
>
> Thanks
>
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