Dumas Patrice wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>>XDMCP is insecure by nature since it cannot be tunneled over
>>>SSH. As I understand it you could use VNC instead, which can be
>>>tunneled over SSH.
>>>
>>XDMCP is only used for querying possible hosts, which VNC just doesn't
>>do. There's no problem tunneling X, so I can't see what VNC would gain.
>>
>
>VNC may be stateless, and maybe less memory hungry at the client side. And also
>less bandwith-consumming. I say that, but I have never benchmarked anything
>;-).
>
>Pat
>
True. The stateless feature could definately be nice for diskless machines.
Bandwidth-wise ssh -C combined with lbxproxy beats vnc for performance
over a 56k... Not that either is pleasant... :)
anthony
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