Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:8130 comp.unix.questions:11809 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!dana From: dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: X Terminals for Sun hosts over dial up phone lines Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 89 14:43:08 GMT References: <2566@antique.UUCP> Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ USA Lines: 44 In-reply-to: hpk@antique.UUCP's message of 20 Feb 89 20:31:10 GMT In article <2566@antique.UUCP> hpk@antique.UUCP (Howard Katseff) writes: I would like to use one of these X terminal from home to access my Sun workstation at work over a dialup line. I have seen references to SLIP and 9600 baud modems but I am quite ignorant about such things. I would appreciate hearing an explanation of how this works, recommendations about X terminals or modems, or best of all, I would like to hear from somebody who has successfully tried to do this! -- Howard Katseff Room 4G-622, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ 07733 UUCP: att!vax135!hpk Internet: hpk@vax135.att.com 201 949-5337 I have a 9600 baud SLIP line from home, so I can give you a brief summary of what to expect ... NOTHING!!. 9600 is WAY too slow to run X over. I have tried to run clients on the office machines, while using my home machine as the display. Its painful! The windows paint in little bursts, which makes you think you have a 300 baud modem. As for how it works. SLIP acts like another device (if you have Suns, you're used to le0, ie0, ec0, etc., well SLIP is sl0). You set up your network to use sl0 for the network, and on the office side, you tell the machine what tty port your home machine(terminal) will come in over, and at what speed. There is a program (slattach) which when run from /etc/rc.local, will set things up (you also have to make changes (i.e., add drivers) to your vmunix). For a summary, it would be very slow going, X was designed for a high speed network. -- +*************************************************************************+ * Dana Chee (201) 829-4488 * * Bellcore * * Room 2Q-250 * * 445 South Street ARPA: dana@bellcore.com * * Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 UUCP: {gateways}!bellcore!dana * +*************************************************************************+