Phoenix Channel - question on broadcast behavior on cluster

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Hi,

I am learning about Phoenix Channel and have question on behavior of broadcast which not as I expected.

Environment: Windows 10, Phoenix 1.4.17, Erlang 22, Elixir 1.12

Nodes:
server@127.0.01, listening on port 4000
remote@127.0.0.1, listening on port 4001

Client:
client1 - wscat connects to server@127.0.0.1 on port 4000, then subscribe to “ping” topic.
client2 - wscat connects to remote@127.0.0.1 on port 4001, then subscribe to “ping” topic.

And here is my doubt, when I broadcast on server@127.0.0.1, only client1 receives the message.
When I broadcast on remote@127.0.0.1, only client2 receives the message.

I need help on what is exactly the correct behavior?

Thanks

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Have you connected the two nodes? They need to be connected before they can chat with each other.

iex(remote@127.0.0.1)3> Node.connect(:"server@127.0.0.1")
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That’s all it needs. Thanks.

How to make them connected automatically on startup?

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You can look at the libcluster library as one way to do that

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Many thanks for giving the hint.