[wplug] Cisco VPN problems

[squeegy-wplug at squeegy.org]

Any local X app.  I just used an xterm as an example.  If I start a local gui file manager, I get the same delay.  I tried installing the latest version of vpnclient thanks to Steve and still get the same results.  As soon as I start the vpnclient local X apps take a very long time to start.  I did an strace when starting an xterm and the program starts loading into memory when it just pauses and a few moments later the the output begins again and the program loads.

> 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.
> 
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