Enabling VNC

Jeremy Conlin jeremyconlin at mail.weber.edu
Fri Oct 22 01:24:57 UTC 2004


On 2004-10-21 18:23:30 -0400, gillian <gillian.bennett at celentia.com> said:

> 
> Perhaps you could check the MTU of your machine and the remote host? We
> have had problems with VNC displaying similar behavior because the MTU's
> didn't match. To diagnose, you run a ping with varying sized packets
> between the hosts and tcpdump the traffic in very verbose mode. That way
> you get the packet sizes being reported.

What is MTU?  How do I ping with different sized packets?  What would 
that tell me?
> 
> Also check to make sure that VNC is actually listening on the port you
> think it should be. You can netstat -npl to check for that.

I have done netstat and have found out that it is listening on the 
right port (after fixing iptables).

Jeremy

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