From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 00:46:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10524 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA10516 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.188]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:48:36 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00655; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:43:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01BD9D47.EFCDC240@manny> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:43:35 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Dave Bender Subject: RE: X thru ppp alias? Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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