"Scott C. Best" wrote:
>
> Hmmm. I think I see the idea: a lotta folks use VNC
> as their remote-admin tool of choice, as it's OS independant.
> To that end, it'd be interesting to port a VNC server for use
> in LEAF. Unlike other VNC servers, though, it wouldn't be very
> graphical at all, rather it's just present a VT100/xterm'ish
> interface like SSH does.
> Then the same remote VNC viewer could be used to
> connect with a Win2k box, a Mac, and the LEAF router which
> gateways them to the Internet. Groovy. I wonder how lean it
> can be built?
As I look at it here, vncserver is just a Perl program to provide a nice
interface to Xvnc.
Xvnc requires libm and libdl, and is 1.3M in size uncompressed and
stripped.
Sounds doable, as long as you have lots of memory and lots of disk
space.
However, I'd question the usefulness of an X server running on a LEAF
router for admin purposes. Running X (Xvnc is just a Xserver with all
of the display stuff ripped out in favor of a network connection) -
Running X means that you'd have Xclients added in - which means lots of
X libraries, and all new binaries, such as rxvt, et al.
I agree with Jeff - ssh works fine.
If you want graphical administration, run a Xclient on the LEAF system
and display on a X server elsewhere. You could even, if you wanted, run
a vnc client on the LEAF box, displaying a remote display, where your
graphical administration tools run on the LEAF system are displaying.
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