Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:43:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Dave Bender <bendede@startribune.com> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: X thru ppp alias? Message-ID: <XFMail.980622094335.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <01BD9D47.EFCDC240@manny>
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Have a look at proxymngr(1) and/or xfwp(1) BTW, "apropos proxy" gives you the same answer ;) Malte. On 22-Jun-98 Dave Bender wrote: > Is it possible to run Xwindows using a FreeBSD machine running ppp -alias to > connect the machines? > > I'm working on a Windows NT machine at home running the Exceed xwindows > server. When I dial in to the Solaris machines at work directly, I have no > trouble running xterm, xemacs and all the rest of those fine X programs. > > I'm in the process of setting up a FreeBSD machine as my home's connection to > the Internet, via my ppp account at work and it works wonderfully for simple > connections: http, telnet, stuff like that. > > But when I try to connect from my NT machine to a Sun machine through the > FreeBSD machine, the ip address of the -DISPLAY variable seems to get lost. > On the home network, it's 10.0.0.1. But that's not the correct address for > the Sun machine, which sees whatever address got assigned to the FreeBSD > machine when it connected. > > Is this making sense? Is there a solution? > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE (and loving it!) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Date: 22-Jun-98 Time: 09:39:21 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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