Re: TS via VPN slow? - NX Protocol?

Am Freitag, 25. Juni 2004 06:16 schrieb Volker Tanger:

Hello all,

> Has someone heard of NoMachine's NX protocol? Or already had hands-on
> experience?

IMHO this technoloy (I call it New X) will replace ALL sessions on a thin 
client!
I just did talk to various people on German LinuxTag04 concerning this. Some 
remarkst:

* NX now has an (early server and client) GPL implemention, with the same 
features (and compatible with) as NXs solution.

* NX incorporates RDP, VNC and X. That is: a thinstation session with 
(several) NX-sessions can show traditional X, and WTS (RDP) and VNC backends, 
in single-application-mode (just kmail) or full-destop-mode (kde). [No need 
for other sessions ...]

* NX use caching (client and server) and compression, reduced round-trip 
times. It acts as a proxy for those protocols.

* NX contains SOUND and LOCAL PRINTING (cups).

* NX can run (I've seen and tested it) with only modem|ISDN connection.

* NX uses sshd (with Encryption and Compression) only. Port 22 is all you 
need.


> As for VPN I was preferring OpenVPN over IPSec due to better handling of
> "client" configurations and easier setup on multiple machines and OSes.
> SSH could be another option, one that allows simple user handling -
> especially for the Unix crowd.
Ack.

> As I'm an X11 guy (sorry RDP/Citrix), I'll set NXclient (session type)
> as priority 1 for my thinstation activities now - the poor performance
> over (slow / high latency) is currently the killer argument against far
> distributed TS installations. As NX is based (network-wise) on SSH, a
> "real" VPN (IPSec/OpenVPN) is not that important any more...

Ack 2. That is a real VPN in my definition.

> Anyone to join in?

Yes.

Good to here that Miles has a NX-Cleint in recent beta. 

All the best

Kai