From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 22:37:33 2002 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 89CB837B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC3A43E3B for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C383D1A97D; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:38:35 -0700 (PDT) To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need some advice on a freebsd solution References: <20020822043645.98286.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 21 Aug 2002 22:37:49 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20020822043645.98286.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <86fzx7fo7m.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 41 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Neophyte writes: | i have a client who needs to run a relatively simple DOS application that | will host a service to his clients. [...] | | 1.) a simple dos application needs to be accessed | 2.) the user will only have access to this application when they connect, | and the session will terminate when the user terminates the application | 3.) the connection needs to be secure. | | i was thinking of using a DOS emulator... [...] however, if it's possible, | i'm not impartial to running this appliacation over a https connection | either. | | intially i was looking at VNC, but it seems that VNC will not allow for | independant multiple user sessions. i also need the trafic to be encrypted. | vnc will do this, but it requires two freebsd boxes to encrypt/de-encrypt | over a public connection. my client will not want to require his client to | setup a FreeBSD box on their network, which will alter the existing network | structure. I often hate answers that start this way, but sometimes, there's just no way to avoid it: What does the DOS application actually do? The reason I ask is because it isn't clear to me what the situation is. Your client has this DOS program he needs to run, yes? Does he need to have multiple users running it at once on the same machine? Does the DOS program access the network directly? Who's using the program? Your client's clients, or just your client? Does the connection have to be secure for just your client, or for the client's clients? What sort of interface do your client's clients use, if any? And that's not the last of the questions. I just feel like there's so little information in your initial post. * My gut feeling is that if the DOS program is simple enough, it should probably be reimplemented as a native FreeBSD app. Could it be rewritten easily in, say, Perl or Python? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message