Traversing X11 clients behind NAT (or X11 end-to-end connectivity)

[Simon Thum]

Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> Simon Thum escreveu:
> "Our results show that thin-client computing in a WAN environment can 
> deliver acceptable performance over Internet2, even when client and 
> server are located thousands of miles apart on opposite ends of the 
> country".
Even infinite bandwidth does not guaranee low latency, however these 
guys seemed to run into less problems. I can't really say I tested it in 
the sense of actual results, so be it.

I still uphold there is an impedance mismatch that is mostly by design. 
In X11, server and client are coupled much tighter than in web scenarios 
(resource- and timingwise). This leads to much reduced control over 
client/server task balancing for a given app, plus increased latency 
dependence.

That's not to say there are no scenarios thinkable which could benefit.

>>> There's a technique to create TCP connections between machines behind 
>>> NAT/firewall called "hole punching' [0, 1]. With the help of a server 
>> AFAIK this is now blessed as http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3261
> 
> hum? I didn't see any relation here.
Well it is related but can not be seen as a successor. Seems I fell 
victim to some overstatement.


Regards,

Simon