On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 11:51, Peter Billson wrote: > Krishna, > This same question was just asked yesterday. In direct > response to your questions, there is no parameter for modems. > > My more general response yesterday was: > > In a standard LTSP setup, the *server*, not the client, is > doing all the 'talking' to the Internet. The only thing the > client computer does (basically) is control the mouse, keyboard > and video display. Connecting a modem to a client would mean: > > The process running on the server(i.e. Mozilla) would send a > request to the remote workstation to dial the modem, then use > the workstation as it's gateway so the workstation would send > inbound data back to the server so it could be displayed on the > workstation. Just thinking about this makes my brain hurt. > > Wouldn't it be much more straight forward to simply attach > the modem(s) directly to the server? Or to a standalone firewall? I have one running on an old pentium; it's slow, but it would be plenty fast enough for a dialup connection.
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