Access from outside a NAT/firewall

Jay Smith jay@JaySmith.com
Wed Dec 3 02:11:00 GMT 2003


Andrew,

I can't speak to the direct question about XDMCP, however....

Some NAT devices are able to map multiple internal addresses to multiple 
external addresses.  If your network's NAT/firewall has the "multiple" 
capability the risks vs rewards must be carefully examined.

Jay

Andrew Leung said the following on 12/02/2003 09:01 PM:
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> Another question,  I would like to access this box from external, it's behind a NAT/firewall.  I've been hearing that xdmcp does not work behind NAT devices..  true or false?
>  
> thx
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