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It depends what you need to do. If you're testing ping, ftp, ssh, etc at the application level, you can use the IP address 127.0.0.1 which is your localhost address and it lives on the lo (/sbin/ifconfig lo) interface. If you need to do lower level stuff, you can compile dummy network drivers, although I haven't tried this myself. What sort of things are you learning about?
Have you looked at VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/)? You can create virtual PCs that have network access to your PC and install different OS combinations. All this happens on your single PC and is only limited by your available RAM and hard disk space.
Have you looked at VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/)? You can create virtual PCs that have network access to your PC and install different OS combinations. All this happens on your single PC and is only limited by your available RAM and hard disk space.
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