From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 06:42:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEAD16A41C for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:42:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8AE43D49 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:42:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so298228wra for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:42:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XZ9v/KyuNcNEpUnwA773DEi3+nLsouahuC9FRmaqa7rPrnubiOE5oAfBAfuvfxEVPtElxEM/vc0puGxWPHlX27niC/StPeqnZPhrmvn2d7dnDwiFY4/RHHjT1+MpcJJwDJGrGBS1Xgiz4gb7mwMWWyt4RQp8FGt1p6lCbiSiQfM= Received: by 10.54.11.64 with SMTP id 64mr837131wrk; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.2 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:42:53 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: Anthony Chavez In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VNC multiplexer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nikolas Britton List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:42:54 -0000 On 6/26/05, Anthony Chavez wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 >=20 > Hi, all. >=20 > Slightly off-topic here, but I thought I might get a better (and more > relevant) response from here rather than a more general VNC > list/newsgroup. >=20 > I've got a client that would like to be able to connect to VNC servers > behind a FreeBSD gateway. Said servers are assigned dynamic IPs via > DHCP, so port mapping (via pf) is not an option (AFAIK). However, we > intend to make use of dynamic DNS, so they will at least have hostnames. Why can't you just give them static mappings. On my networks I use DHCP for everything. I then tell my DHCP/DNS server (m0n0wall) to reserve and only give this ip address to server x or printer y etc.to put it bluntly... >=20 > One solution we've considered is setting up a multiplexer of sorts that > would enable users of VNC client apps to pick and choose which machine > to connect to inside the LAN per session, but I'm curious to know if > such a thing (or something similar) exists already. I've never heard of such a device >=20 > I'd be very interested in knowing what solutions any of you may have > come with to tackle this problem. DNS..... ummmm what about setting up a web page where the user can click on which server to connect to (you will still need DNS or Static mappings) and then it opens up in a java VNC client?