[plug] Modems & X

[Bill Kenworthy]

I'll second zebedee - was orinally designed for VNC which isnt
compressed, but already does some smart cacheing.  Easy to use, windoze
as well as linux versions, able to multiplex streams down the tunnel
(ftp, telnet, X etc at the same time) and can be tunneled itself
(httptunnel and the like).  Simple tests I have done here show very
noticeable gains for VNC especially, and pure X (clients like licq). 
Compression is based on zlib (or optionally bzip2) and the amount is
selectable.  Also offers blowfish encryption, which whilst not the
strongest around, is unlikely to be the weakest link.

BillK


Andrew Francis wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Campbell, David (Ex AS17) wrote:
> > What applications that spring to mind that could compress the X bandwith
> > across the modem (the remote end is a POSIX but non-Linux OS, the
> > application is heavy on the Motif widgets if that is any help).
> 
 
> The next simplest alternative is to use something else to tunnel the
> connection, compressing in the process. I use zebedee for this, it's
> available from http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/ and compiles pretty
> cleanly. It can do deflate compression using zlib, or bzip2 compression.
> 
> If using something like zebedee, you'll want to set DISPLAY=localhost:10
> and forward port 6010, DISPLAY=localhost:23 and forward port 6023, etc.