-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:42:53 -0500 Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/26/05, Anthony Chavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've got a client that would like to be able to connect to VNC servers >> behind a FreeBSD gateway. Said servers are assigned dynamic IPs via >> DHCP, so port mapping (via pf) is not an option (AFAIK). However, we >> intend to make use of dynamic DNS, so they will at least have hostnames. > > Why can't you just give them static mappings. On my networks I use > DHCP for everything. > I then tell my DHCP/DNS server (m0n0wall) to reserve and only give > this ip address to server x or printer y etc.to put it bluntly... Static IPs would certainly work, but this particular subnet is expected to see a large degree of growth over the next few years, and my client specificially asked for dynamic IPs. >> One solution we've considered is setting up a multiplexer of sorts that >> would enable users of VNC client apps to pick and choose which machine >> to connect to inside the LAN per session, but I'm curious to know if >> such a thing (or something similar) exists already. > > I've never heard of such a device And after researching it, I'm discovering that even *making* such a device would be extremely difficult because the VNC protocol itself does not lend itself well to proxying. So there's my answer: write a multiplexer myself. >> I'd be very interested in knowing what solutions any of you may have >> come with to tackle this problem. > > DNS..... ummmm what about setting up a web page where the user can > click on which server to connect to (you will still need DNS or Static > mappings) and then it opens up in a java VNC client? We've considered doing that. However, my client has been somewhat unimpressed by the Java VNC client, and is not terribly interested in using it either. Nevertheless, I appreciate your response. - -- Anthony Chavez http://anthonychavez.org/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBQsSwxvAIdTFWAbdTAQoEIwf/YwL4SLjpI/78wqvaGcwIXwQGXsSOfaJb t3U3Jitjov6wnYgq26YxMGQoFknXpAtPzqAR8Rn9ceJdEt4AtJ1S7vo7NyD0GrRm dqKnfVvUYUUPWNk1cuDmVbEH8HDXQllInQ/aeRaXTNDONACUtFxH/lKF+rEs0nV9 N7UhyFKeAHZAjd4FYBIlCbdw4rQkoFc1Ke8LLbi6LdK3ZuYTrLHIinLy2lcY4zkf 2E023tALJHh1+K0Ks82NmX7zLxbh2GqRKAlZ01Iy414vBSeGe9Yuz0jvwQ2YYZx2 g2mwvLdrujz3mVtOmn14tmFr9t/BrVq3NBONPSKKQaq4FawbX8bRqw== =6iXs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"