Miss Shoba:
Okay, I think I understand. Currently, Kaboodle is built
so that it can administer a VNC connection to any VNC server that's
*on the same LAN* as the PC running Kaboodle. We need to extend
that so that it can administer a connection to any VNC server on
any of the Engaged LAN's as well.
How should we do that? We need a way for Kaboodle to
automatically recognize that it needs to activate a connection via
your tunneling code (which acts as a "secure proxy" service) rather
than a direct connection. Also, it needs to know which machine
is the "master gateway" or "VPN node" for the LAN. So if I setup
a VPN from PC1 of LAN1 to PC3 of LAN2, I can then startup VNC on
PC2 of LAN1 and connect to PC4 of LAN2 without having to
explicitly tell Kaboodle that PC1 and PC3 are gatewaying the
connection. Tricky stuff.
I think looking at the NID is the right place to start.
If a connection is being initiated from PC1 on LAN1, it looks
at the LAN membership of the target machine. If it's on the same
LAN, it can connect directly. If it is not on the same LAN, it
instead makes a call to your tunneling code (e.g., "this is PC1
of LAN1 looking to make a VNC connection to PC4 on LAN2"). The
response from the tunneling service should be "ready for data
on 192.168.1.4 port xyz" where the .4 machine is the VPN gateway
PC. The first part of this (ie, determining whether to connect
to a machine or to the proxy) should be a fairly straightforward
modification of the existing VNC management code.
Please let me know what you think. I am CC'ing the other
developers so that they know what's going to change. They may
even be able to indicate exactly where the changes should be
inserted.
-Scott
PS: I still really do need to know the latency numbers for your
proxying service. It's critical that they be as low as
possible, and I don't think using MFC sockets will work.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, shoba wrote:
> Dear Scott,
>
> Pleaae see the attachment for the debuging status of the project.
>
> Let us know your comments.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shoba
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