David:
Point taken about Xvnc. But I was thinking more along the
lines of redoing vncserver so that it wasn't a nice interface to
Xvnc, but rather was a nice interface to sshd or telnetd.
A VNC viewer/server uses the RFB protocol, so really
the idea is to create an RFB-to-ssh or RFB-to-telnet interpreter.
The benefit to supporting the RFB service is that you can now use
any VNC viewer as, effectively, an ssh/telnet client.
I still think it's groovy. Though I won't put aside
my MindTerm stuff just yet. :)
-Scott
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> "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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