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I am in the process of writing a socket program that will need to talk to different computers across the world. I want to set up a virtualized WAN on my computer so I can install the software on a virtual machine and test it's connectivity in a "real"ish WAN environment.
http://wanem.sourceforge.net/ Looks promising for setting up the WAN, but I was curious if anybody knew a better way to do it than setting up a bunch of virtual servers, and then another virtual server running WANEM to act as the WAN. I have never been very successful with Virtual Nic's.
Not a great option - but if you have a few extra machines around, you can always physically set one up. I think we can all agree that's a gross option. I'd personally go with VMs, but yeah, I get that too can be weird for networking. +1 - interesting question. – James T Snell – 2011-07-13T17:51:38.857