Why don't you just run a few VMs on your local machine? It's not like a GNUnet peer requires tons of resources, so a typical system should easily be able to run several VMs with a GNUnet peer in each. If you then disable external network connectivity, you're pretty much guaranteed to only be talking to yourself ;-).
My 2 cents -Christian On 9/23/21 4:25 PM, Alessio Vanni wrote: > Hello, > > as per the subject, I'm looking for a way to set up a small independent > network of peers to test an application. > > What I'm looking for is primarily for this network to exist > independently from the normal global GNUnet network that peers connect > to when using the default configuration. > > I don't really care if the testing can be automated or if it has to be > handled manually, or if there are concerns about speed or stability; as > long as the above condition holds I'm fine with anything. I can probably > work around issues, if there's a need to. > > I know that GNUnet has TESTING and TESTBED, but I can't tell if whatever > they do happens on a dedicated network of peers or if they still make > contacts with the outer world, in addition to having to study the API, > so I haven't yet tried them. > > The main reason is that I have some test data that I don't want to (and > for some of it "can't") distribute on the global network, but I can't > run any tests without having two or three other connected peers. > > If it makes things different, as briefly said in the subject, the > network can just be a total of three peers connected with each other, as > that is enough to check if the application works regardless of other > metrics, so I don't really need things that might make setting things up > more complex. > > Thanks, > A.V. > > P.S. to be honest, "just use TESTBED" would be the ideal answer, but > since I need independence and I don't know if TESTBED does it, I thought > I'd ask before spending time on something that I don't need. >
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