At 20:42 08-04-02, you wrote: >i am not sure what you mean by masquerading; i can say i am on a different >subnet and go through at least one router to get to the vm hosts. there are >firewalls to take into consideration as well, but the set up is essentially
A masquerading router or application proxy etc will keep a list of the TCP/IP connections that it knows about, so that it can pass packets back and forth to the client and server who think they talk directly. When no packets flow anymore, the entry in the table is flushed. This is fine for transaction type stuff like http, but it is a problem for a login session. I had the same problem with PuTTY sessions via socks, but when you tell the PuTTY to send null-packets to keep the connection up, then you're fine. Try to connect to your Linux guest with PuTTY and make it forward the X11 connection and see if you still have the problem. Which brings be to the more elementary question, why do you want to use xterm sessions at all? Rob
