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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : darylp@au1.ibm.com
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:44:19 +0930 (CST)

Re: Remote Control Software (Linux X Windows, Mac, Win32, OS/2,

darylp@au1.ibm.com wrote:

 > Has anyone used VNC?
 > What is it performance like? Especially low bandwidth, (modem), links.

I've used it once before over an ssh tunnel between home and work (56k
modem for now).  It's very slow, but in an emergency ...

[ thankfully I don't need to use it very often, on the grounds that 
  there is only one production NT machine at work :-) ]

 > On what platforms have people used it?

FreeBSD, Windows, Linux.

 > Is it secure?
 > Does it encrypt its data packets?

Security is doubtful, but you can fix that by combining it with an
ssh tunnel (which can also be used to make it faster over slow net
links:  ssh -C incorporates encryption *and* crompression).

   - mark

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