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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Connecting to amother hosts X-Server
Date: 27 Jul 1995 09:51:10 +0200
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Simon Harris <s9511800@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>Is it possible to connect for example to my Uni via a simple
>serial line connection (i.e. no SLIP/PPP) and act as an X-client?
No, X uses TCP (or DECnet) as its transport layer. You need an
IP connection.
There's a simple user mode SLIP available (sorry, i forgot its name).
Since it's not running with root priv's, it cannot use privileged
ports, but you don't need them for X11. Perhaps this would suffice
your needs (in combination with a SLIP client on the FreeBSD side)?
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)