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| jeanluc 2005-12-13, 5:48 pm |
| >From home I have a VPN tunnel connection to the network back at the
office.
At home I use cygwin on my XP box and through the VPN tunnel I am
successful in opening up an XTERM connection to a new 64 bit, redhat
LINUX computer in the office. To start the xterm I use
$ startxwin.bat
In the xterm that pops up I type
$ ssh -Y user@computer_name
I am successful in starting a graphical application in the xterm. The
problem is though that the graphical application runs really slow. A
gui button push takes many seconds to be implemented.
I used the "top" command and saw that at the moment no processes were
using any CPU cycles and there seemed to be lot's of memory avaliable.
If I on the other hand connect to a win2003 server in the the office
using windows remote desktop, the same GUI application running on the
windows server runs much, much faster.
I think the VPN tunnel is fine but for some reason VPN packets to and
from the LINUX box seem to have a huge delay.
Our system admin seem to think it is a bug in LINUX redhat when
connections are through a VPN tunnel.
Has anybody also experienced such problems?
Any suggestions?
thanks!
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| General Schvantzkoph 2005-12-13, 5:48 pm |
| On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:27:04 -0800, jeanluc wrote:
> office.
>
> At home I use cygwin on my XP box and through the VPN tunnel I am
> successful in opening up an XTERM connection to a new 64 bit, redhat
> LINUX computer in the office. To start the xterm I use
>
> $ startxwin.bat
>
> In the xterm that pops up I type
>
> $ ssh -Y user@computer_name
>
> I am successful in starting a graphical application in the xterm. The
> problem is though that the graphical application runs really slow. A
> gui button push takes many seconds to be implemented.
>
> I used the "top" command and saw that at the moment no processes were
> using any CPU cycles and there seemed to be lot's of memory avaliable.
>
> If I on the other hand connect to a win2003 server in the the office
> using windows remote desktop, the same GUI application running on the
> windows server runs much, much faster.
>
> I think the VPN tunnel is fine but for some reason VPN packets to and
> from the LINUX box seem to have a huge delay.
>
> Our system admin seem to think it is a bug in LINUX redhat when
> connections are through a VPN tunnel.
>
> Has anybody also experienced such problems?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks!
The problem may be Cygwin, it's pretty slow. Try running Linux on your
home box, the performance will be much better then Cygwin.
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| jeanluc 2005-12-13, 5:48 pm |
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General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> The problem may be Cygwin, it's pretty slow. Try running Linux on your
> home box, the performance will be much better then Cygwin.
Would commercial X-terminal software running on my XP box such as
Exceed be much faster than cygwin?
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| Ivan Marsh 2005-12-13, 5:48 pm |
| On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:28:24 -0800, jeanluc wrote:
> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>
> Would commercial X-terminal software running on my XP box such as Exceed
> be much faster than cygwin?
I have used Exceed, X-Win32 and X-cygwin... in my experience X-cygwin has
the best performance of the three.
--
The USA Patriot Act is the most unpatriotic act in American history.
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| Kill Bill 2005-12-21, 7:53 am |
| jeanluc wrote:
> office.
>
> At home I use cygwin on my XP box and through the VPN tunnel I am
> successful in opening up an XTERM connection to a new 64 bit, redhat
> LINUX computer in the office. To start the xterm I use
>
> $ startxwin.bat
>
> In the xterm that pops up I type
>
> $ ssh -Y user@computer_name
Firstly I am not sure why you need VPN. If your office machine is not
firewalled or at least ssh access is not blocked, you just just ssh into
it from your home machine (I recommend putty as the win32 ssh client),
and enable X forwarding. And you run any X server on your home machine.
Then problem solved.
Even if you cannot directly ssh into your office machine, but you can
ssh into your company firewall them jump to your office machine. You can
still achieve this without VPN. What you need to do, is to use ssh proxy
command to redirect everything to your linux machine at office. Here is
a good read,
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/...s/20040830.html
The last chance you need vpn, I would recommend OpenVPN. It is easy to
set up, and very secure, crossplatform.
As for X server, I personally prefer Xming,
http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming
It is lightweight. It doesn't depend on cygwin enviroment (this is
sometime useful as only one version of cygwin1.dll can be run on the
system; so if you have several programs relying on cygwin and each only
works with different version of cygwin, you are then out of luck). I
found the commbination of putty+Xming is more flexible than
openssh+cygwin/X.
HTH,
KB
--
NT stands for New Technology. Windowds NT(NT4.x)/2K(NT5.0)/XP(NT5.1)
was built on NT Technology. Anyone understands what "new" means, so
everyone knows M$ Windoze NT/2K/XP/Whatever is a *real* innovation.
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| jeanluc wrote:
> office.
>
> At home I use cygwin on my XP box and through the VPN tunnel I am
> successful in opening up an XTERM connection to a new 64 bit, redhat
> LINUX computer in the office. To start the xterm I use
>
> $ startxwin.bat
>
> In the xterm that pops up I type
>
> $ ssh -Y user@computer_name
>
> I am successful in starting a graphical application in the xterm. The
> problem is though that the graphical application runs really slow. A
> gui button push takes many seconds to be implemented.
>
> I used the "top" command and saw that at the moment no processes were
> using any CPU cycles and there seemed to be lot's of memory avaliable.
>
> If I on the other hand connect to a win2003 server in the the office
> using windows remote desktop, the same GUI application running on the
> windows server runs much, much faster.
>
> I think the VPN tunnel is fine but for some reason VPN packets to and
> from the LINUX box seem to have a huge delay.
>
> Our system admin seem to think it is a bug in LINUX redhat when
> connections are through a VPN tunnel.
>
> Has anybody also experienced such problems?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks!
>
Yes, I was never able to get useable cygwin erformance
over a medium speed DSL
between RHEL 3 and Win XP. I could not make the keyboard work.
Mouse and screen were OK.
The RDP protocol is much more efficient than the X protocol.
RDP will always faster or use less bandwidth than X. VNC works better
than X not as well as RDP. Try VNC. I do not think the VPN
makes any difference.
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| Kill Bill 2005-12-23, 7:47 am |
| > The RDP protocol is much more efficient than the X protocol.
> RDP will always faster or use less bandwidth than X. VNC works better
> than X not as well as RDP. Try VNC.
I know there is a linux port for the RDP client, but I am not aware of
any linux port of the RDP *server* (I highly doubt there will be one as
the RDP server relies too much on the Windoze internals). For the
original poster's case, on the server side he has a linux machine.
Cheers,
KB
--
NT stands for New Technology. Windowds NT(NT4.x)/2K(NT5.0)/XP(NT5.1)
was built on NT Technology. Anyone understands what "new" means, so
everyone knows M$ Windoze NT/2K/XP/Whatever is a *real* innovation.
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