None of this addresses the problem of establishing an X session over masq.
It's probably just a matter of forwarding the ports that the server is going
to use to establish a connection with the client (assuming client on masqed
net). Anyone doing it? Know the port numbers off hand?
Thanks, Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Ranch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 1:11 PM
> To: Nigel Metheringham
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [masq-dev] [masq] Allowing diskless X stations
> to boot via
> BOOTP -through- as MASQ box
>
>
>
> 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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