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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!)
> 
> 
> 
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Date: 22-Jun-98
Time: 09:39:21
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