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Since you're "very new" to ROS, you likely don't need foreign_relay. ROS is a distributed system that supports topic sharing between computers out-of-the-box -- you simply need to use the ROS_MASTER_URI environment variable (see the Running ROS across multiple machines tutorial).

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