How to choose which IP VNC uses

[Jonathan Morton]

>Wow. I didn't even know Crapintoshes could do NAT...

That's what IPNetRouter is for.  And please don't insult Macs.

>But more to the
>point, can't you just block all outsiders from ports 5800-5999? Those
>are the ports VNC uses.

That's probably the best idea.  I don't recall whether IPNR will do 
that, but it should.  Of course, this assumes VNC is "finding" the 
internal NIC as well as the external - I don't see any obvious reason 
why it shouldn't.

>Oh, and if you're on a Mac you can only use
>display 0 which would only use ports 5800(for the web service) and
>5900(for the meat & potatoes)

BZZZZT!  Wrong!  Well, right if you were only using the AT&T server. 
But ChromiVNC is a *lot* more flexible than that, kapiche?

>  > VNC persists in finding the internal NIC, and so the exposed IP and using
>  > it. While that works alright, I do not want to risk the exposure of VNC to
>>  the internet, but I cannot figure out how to tell it to use the "inside"
>  > IP, which is in the 192.168.x.x space.

Dual-NIC setups on a Mac are somewhat unusual, hence the need for 
IPNR.  If you can't make IPNR do what you need, contact me directly 
and I'll see about making a change to ChromiVNC for you, so it will 
"bind" to a specific address.

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