On Tuesday 16 July 2002 15:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Adrian, > > XDMCP is only used for the initial login. Once you get past > the login screen, there is no more XDMCP traffic. At that point, > it's all X protocol. > > X will usually only send updates, but, those updates can be pretty > large. For instance, if you have 2 windows open, but overlapping, > when you click on the window underneath, to make it come to the > top, that can be quite a bit of data that needs to be sent to > the workstation. > > It is my guess that you won't be happy with 10 users on a 64k wan. > > That is, if you are running X apps across that connection. > > If you are running the apps all within the remote office, and then > using Xterm and telnetting over to the other office, that could work > just fine. I've seen upto 18 users sharing a 56k line when using > telnet. There may be brief periods of high traffic, for instance when > you send a print job, but overall, it can work. > > Hope that helps, >
Thanks .. yes it does put some light on the subject .. How does citrix/rdp do this then ?? We currently have the clients running ICA, but due to licensing, as well as my boss now pushing Linux as an alternative, we want to make a move But not to a slower environment !! -- Regards, ADRIAN SNYMAN +27 82 600-1211 +27 11 397-1640 /* Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows !! */ ================== The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author and not those of Supply Chain Services or its management. The information in this e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Whilst all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of information and data transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no liability or responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is, for whatever reason, corrupted or does not reach its intended destination. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
