[wplug] Cisco VPN problems

[John Strange]

Hmm,

That's really odd, so basically when he starts an xterm it then just
hangs when he's connected over the VPN?  Or is he starting a remote
xterm an displaying that on his local box over a VPN?

- John

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 07:39, Steve Snodgrass wrote:
> 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.