[Wolves] XDMCP bandwidth

[David Goodwin]

X works well on 100mb lans, and slowly on 10mb from my experience... this
is for a full screen desktop (windowmaker+mozilla+gaim)

If you have applications with animated graphics on them, then performance
will suffer more...  so perhaps it's more of a question of what the end
user would be using.


You could tunnel X through ssh, and use compression gaining far better
performance (and security), and remove the need for xdmcp etc.

Putty will allow you to forward X over ssh, you just need an X server on
the wind0ws box, and to have configured /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow X
forwarding...

thanks,

David.

> Does anyone know how much bandwidth XDMCP actually uses?
>
> I'm asking because the last LUG reminded me of it - I looked into it
> ages ago but decided against it because at that time the server was also
> the firewall and I was concerned that any little security error on my
> part could make things go belly-up, but we now have a seperate firewall
> box.
>
> What I'm thinking is I could use XDMCP+cygwin not only to give myself
> some relief from the fact that my work box is a windows box but also to
> give people here a nice intro to the linux desktop, without them having
> to dual-boot or whatever.
>
> Also, if the bandwidth usage isn't that great, is it possible to
> actually secure it?  What I've read so far it hasn't been promising, but
> if I could offer this up to the 'net it'd be a piece of piss to sell the
> idea here.
>
> Laters
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> Dan
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