single linux box on dsl?

[William Hooper]

Guy Fraser said:
> Yes FC1 does use TCP ports for X11.

No, it doesn't.  Just one example of many:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04180.html

> XDMCP does not use TCP by default, so you can't access a remote desktop
> but the display is still listening. You use xhost to control access to
> the display.

No, you can't.  It is not listening.

> If you log onto another machine and export DISPLAY=yourhost:0.0 and you
> have run xhost +remoteip then when you run an X app on the remote
> machine it will display on your local interface, you also need to open TCP
> port 6000 in your firewall.

Not unless you reconfigure it to listen.

> You can also use ssh forwarding to
> simplify some of the steps and encrypt the X commands between the two
> machines, this does not require TCP port 6000 to be opened.

Correct.

> I use ssh X forwarding all the time, and it works well.

I agree.

-- 
William Hooper