ipx broadcast for WinVNC?

[Darxus]

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Mitchell, Mark J wrote:

> I subscribed to VNC's email list, but was quickly overwhelmed by the volume.
> I am trying to find a teaching solution for the local college's computer
> science department where the teacher's console is broadcast to all the
> students' monitors.  TCP/IP is too slow and I was wondering if anyone has
> been able to work with IPX broadcast or IP multicast?

There have been a couple times where people sent questions directly to me.
I find this very curious, as, basically, my only involvement has been in
suggesting the use of IRC.  How did you end up directing this question at
me ?


Now to your question.  
Are you suggesting that IP is slower than IPX ?  I do not believe that to
be the case.

Are you setting up many student workstations monitoring one teacher
workstation simultaniously ?  I am often amused at people's opinion that
VNC is slow.  You're transferring an entire graphical user interface over
a network in real time.  What do you expect ?  And if you're transferring
20 copies of it at once, no, it won't work.  

The one possibility of getting it to work would be in modifying VNC to be
able to handle proper broadcasts.  There is a specific address that will
broadcast to all hoasts, and the client on the student machines could be
modified to pick up those transmissions.  I believe all of IPX is done via
broadcasts, but to use that you'd have to add support for a whole nother
protocol.  

The way this usually is done is with a projector.  We have two of them at
work -- you just plug them into a computer's monitor connection.  They
work very well.  


I do not understand why you would have sent this question to me instead of
the list.  All email programs have the ability to filter all email which
comes from a mailing list into a seperate folder specific to that list.
If it were not for that, the 27 active mailing lists that I am on would be
quite overwhelming.  And once you post to the list, you can scan the
topics for responses to your inquiry.


BTW, I've carboned the VNC mailing list in this email. 
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