On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 at 14:18, Bob Williams wrote:
>I have used VNC but a little - primarily for accessing a Win95 box from
>a Linux box. A casual observation is that over a 10 MBps ethernet it
>seems a bit sluggish. That might be a problem with Windows rather than
>VNC.
I don't think it's got that much to do with the speed of the connection. I
tested VNC between a Linux box and a Windows box over a 100Mbps connection
(switched with nobody else on the network) and the performance was still
sluggish. If I remember correctly somewhere in the FAQ it's mentioned that
there's an issue with Windows. They can't seem to hack something, thanks
to Microsoft's being closed, so they weren't able to optimize it as they
could say, the Linux counterparts (client and server). I haven't tested
Linux-Linux connections, though.
>One thing I like about VNC is that the client software (which runs on
>the remote terminal - opposite of X) is SMALL compared to running an X
>server. There are VNC servers for DOS, GEOS, Windows95 and more, I
>haven't tried them all. In theory, VNC will allow you to run with a
>MUCH thinner client.
Thanks for this "in theory" of yours. I just checked out the VNC website
again and it seems to be a pretty neat alternative in my plan to go mostly
Linux here in the small LAN I administrate. I'll test Linux-Linux
connections via VNC. It seems to be a pretty neat setup compared to using
the solution presented using X. A little more review, some testing, and I
hope to be able to post new thoughts. :)
Has anyone tested such a setup? I'd love to get info about bandwidth and
CPU consumption, considering we'll basically centralize processing and
we'll rely very heavily on the LAN for whatever data goes between the VNC
server and client programs. It'd be interesting to compare the consumption
patterns as far as network bandwidth and server CPU are conserned between
heavy file transfers via Samba and whatever-data transfers using a VNC
thin client. Hmm ...
I'm also checking this website out, <http://daggit.pagecreator.com/vnc/>.
Some of you may be interested in it. It's entitled "VNC Alternate
Encoder". Supposedly a tweaked encoder-decoder-compression system for VNC.
Kewl! (I'm obviously excited again. Hahaha!!!) :-)
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