[SLUG] Re: Re: remote X and firewalls

2000-10-25 Thread Angus Lees
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:52:05PM +1100, chesty wrote: > > XTerminal Firewall --- XServer > > ie XTerminal displays the screens, XServer runs the apps and > the firewall blocks all forwarding. I want to run an X proxy > on the firewall that forwards packets between the XTermina

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: remote X and firewalls

2000-10-25 Thread Ken Yap
>the terms "server" and "client" are sort of the wrong way around in >X. > >the X server is where the displaying is happening. X clients connect >to this to display stuff. so the terminal in front of the user is >actually the X *server*. It seems that way but it only seems the wrong way around if

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: remote X and firewalls

2000-10-25 Thread Peter Rundle
> the terms "server" and "client" are sort of the wrong way around in > X. > > the X server is where the displaying is happening. X clients connect > to this to display stuff. so the terminal in front of the user is > actually the X *server*. Very important point!. (from a firewall point of view