Re: Bandwidth utilisation per thin client

I would recommend NX over VNC though. I think NX has done an
excellent job in completing the X protocol to work very well over
a dialup and did that with security thrown in via ssh.  I have had
very good experience for the last 6 months with from logging into
my machine at home from my laptop at airports and hotspots.

I know that the PXES ISO has a nxclient and so I would encourage
greater usage of that.

Harish

On 10/6/05, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
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> No. XDM is very heavy, you would be lucky to get one responsive XDM sessi=
on
> over a 1M link.
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> To connect to Linux desktops over a WAN I use VNC, it can be tuned depend=
ing
> on available bandwidth.
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> Setting up the server is the trick.
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> Here is a start for you;
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> # cat /etc/xinetd.d/vnc-1024x768x24
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> service vnc-1024x768x24
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> {
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>         disable         =3D no
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>         log_type        =3D FILE /var/log/vnc-1024x768x24.log
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>         log_on_success  =3D PID HOST
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>         log_on_failure  =3D HOST
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>         socket_type     =3D stream
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>         wait            =3D no
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>         user            =3D nobody
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>         server          =3D /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvnc
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>         server_args     =3D -inetd -query 127.0.0.1 -once -geometry 1024x=
768
> -depth 24 -fp tcp/localhost:7100
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> }
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>
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> # grep vnc-1024x768x24 /etc/services
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> vnc-1024x768x24 5960/tcp                        # Connect VNC clients to =
the
> local X server
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> Using a vncviewer you can connect to server:60 (display 60).
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> I only use XDM on 100Mb LAN.
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> I found the original VNC howto on the web somewhere a long time ago.
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> You could also use NX but I haven't tried that yet.
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> Hope that helps.
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> Ben
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > From: [email protected]
> [mailto:pxes-devel-
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> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kunal Parikh
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> > Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:54 PM
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> > To: [email protected]
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> > Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] Bandwidth utilisation per thin client
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> >
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> > Hi Ray,
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> >
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> > Once again, thanks for your response.
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> >
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> > I was planning on using XDM on Linux. Do you think I could have 20
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> > clients over a dedicated 1MBPS link ?
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> > TIA,
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> >
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> > Kunal
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> >
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> > Ray wrote:
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> > >On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:08:24AM +1000, Kunal Parikh wrote:
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> > >
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> > >>Hi all,
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> > >>
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> > >>I want to setup some thin clients at remote locations.
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> > >>
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> > >>Is there an easy way to calculate bandwidth utilisation per client ?
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> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >
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> > >What kind of client were you planning to use?  I'd imagine that, for
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> > >example, running a remote X session directly is going to be a lot
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> > different
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> > >than using NX or RDP.  That said, I think the real answer usually ends=
 up
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> > >being "as much as you've got"
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