Apache 1.3 -> IP address and X

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:43:02 -0600
Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> Don't have a clue about the IP address.  My cable modem (originally
> AT&T, now transitioning to Comcast, is on a Netgear router which
> handles the DHCP stuff, so I never see the IP address.  I could query
> the router from a browser, but my curiosity only extends so far.

This brings up an interesting question. A friend has a Netgear router on a
broadband connection. All his machines are behind this. To the world, he has
one IP address, assigned via DHCP to the Netgear router, who then
distributes to the internal machines.

If one wanted to run a remote X program for display on a machine behind the
netgear box, how would one proceed? Opening port 600x is not a problem. But,
what next? On the remote, what do you set DISPLAY to? Do you havve to
hardwire that activity on a certain port on the netgear box is automatically
routed to some specific machine? Like: all port 6001 goes to internal
maxhine Z, all port 6002 activity goes to machine y, and so on? If so, how
do you start the X server locally, and how do you specify the port for a
program on the remote? Isn't the screen number 'added' to the base port of
6000?

I played a bit with the X proxy in the TIS toolkit a while back, but that
was not with a netgear (any vendor I guess) router.

Any pointers?


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