[wplug] Cisco VPN problems

[Steve Snodgrass]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:10:00PM -0400, John wrote:
> I would definetly say that the X protocol is not very bandwidth happy, you'd
> be better off using something like telnet/ssh simply cause it doesn't have
> to send as many updates.
> 
> If you want to see how busy the X protocol is fire up tcpdump on port 6000
> and watch the traffic fly..

John,

He's not referring to running xterm over the network, just locally.  I suspect
the delay had something to do with the VPN client hijacking DNS requests, but I
never had a chance to really check it out before it went away.

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