VNC

[Mike Wright]

If I read the documentation for WinSock on 95 properly, there should be
no problem using winsock to talk to IPX socket.
If that is the case, could I not build a version of VNC server/client
that uses IPX sockets instead of TCP sockets and then use that ?


> ----------
> From: 	Tristan Richardson[SMTP:tjr "at" orl.co.uk]
> Sent: 	27 April 1998 19:26
> To: 	Mike Wright
> Cc: 	vnc "at" orl.co.uk
> Subject: 	Re: VNC 
> 
> > Thank you for making this product available. It has solved at least
> one
> > of my admin. problems already.
> > 
> > YOu mention that the CORBA version is NOT available for download. I
> have
> > two networks that are connected but do not support TCP/IP over the
> > bridge. Do you have any suggestions as to how I might use VNC over
> the
> > bridge ?
> 
> 
> How are the two networks connected?  I guess you'd need to write
> proxies on
> both sides of the bridge which forward the VNC protocol.  It shouldn't
> be too
> hard, I wouldn't have thought.  The proxy on the client side of the
> bridge
> should listen on a particular TCP port for connections from the
> client, make a
> connection across the bridge to the proxy on the server side which
> should then
> make a TCP connection to the server.  Then simply forward packets in
> both
> directions.
> 
>  server <-TCP-> server-side-proxy <-bridge-> client-side-proxy <-TCP->
> client
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Tristan
> 
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