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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux as X terminal
- Message-ID: <Sep.11.17.59.07.1992.9971@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:59:09 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.132443.189@news.uwyo.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
- Lines: 19
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- bills@news.uwyo.edu writes:
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- > Is it possible to use Linux as an X server. IE can
- >I run an application on a remote DEC station and control
- >it from my Linux machine. Can this be done using SLIP
- >and a fast modem or do I have to use TCP/IP. Also does
- >the SLS distribution have TCP/IP built in?
-
- Yes, however you need a path between X and your DECstation. As soon
- as the next release of X comes out it will support the alpha version
- of kernel-mode TCP/IP. That should let you use TCP/IP over Ethernet
- and (eventually) SLIP. With the current X server, you would need to
- use KA9Q, which is a user-mode TCP/IP. It should do a good job of
- supporting SLIP. Its Ethernet support is sort of marginal. Note that
- both of these options involve X over TCP/IP. DEC often runs X over
- one of their transports (either DECnet or LAT -- I'm not sure which).
- So you'd need to make sure that the X on your DECstation will talk to
- TCP/IP.
-