Hey Nigel,
Thanks for the email. As I think we are all starting to see here,
this is COMPLICATED. Fortunately, I noticed yesterday on the LDP
site:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/NCD-X-Terminal
So, with this document in hand, hopefully the user will be able to
get the box up and running ASAP.
--David
At 10:00 AM 1/26/99 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>} I'm helping a user here who is trying to get a NCD X-station to boot
>} through a MASQ box. The NCD box works fine on the same external
>} interface as the Linux box but he wants to put it behind the Linux
>} box.
>
>There are probably a set of stages to this....
>
>1. The thing obviously bootps for initial configuration
>2. Then it may want to download an image - probably TFTP maybe FTP or NFS
> [config file if no image...]
>3. Then its probably OK, unless it also uses a font server....
>4. Also there would normally be an xdm or similar manager for it.
>
>1. BOOTP. Don't think about doing this by masq-ing it.
> Put a bootp-relay agent on your masq machine instead.
> I think there are relay agents in the CMU bootp distribution,
> and the ISC dhcp relay will probably work too (from www.isc.org)
>
>2. FTP OK, NFS OK, TFTP... think it'll work.... However the NCD
> will need to be able to work through a router... rather than
> assuming a direct network, and you need the bootp entry modded
> to fit that.
>
>3. X font server should work through masq. Or you could have one
> on the masq box.
>
>4. I guess some of the X modes will work through masq... but the
> ports will be generally loused up. This could be the hardest part to
> make work, and its easiest if the supporting host is on the masq neywork
>
> Nigel.
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