Vista - About creating a virtual test network

I have a VB6/Excel-WordVBA app I need to test for network capability. What
would be the easiest and least expensive way to create a test network? I need
to support Win 2K-Vista. I was looking at Virtual PC help-it looks like you
can create a Virtual Network on it using the MS Loopback Adapter. Has anyone
tried this? Is this probably the best solution?
Thanks, God bless,
Van

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:13:01 -0700, VanS
<VanS@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hmm, this product has been around for years, do you not think that all
combinations of networking have been tested by someone yet?
It looks like you want to create a test environment where a few (2-3)
PC:s are involved running your software and connected to each other
but to nothing else.
Like if they were all alone in an office network...

In that case you'd be better off selecting "Local only" for each
virtual machine network adapter (in the settings).
Then inside each virtual machine you will have to set the IP addresses
of each of the network cards to a manual value. For example
192.168.13.1-3 for the 3 PC:s.
Then they will be able to communicate with each other but they will
not be visible anywhere else including on your host PC.
And they will have no Internet access.
But since they are isolated nothing can get at them either...
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Bo Berglund (Sweden)