Re: XWin fails connecting to XDM for sending wrong source-IP

[norm <norm3 at freenet dot de>]

> > I was trying to connect to a Linux-server (Debian/Sarge, XFree86 4.3) 
> > from my Windows-box (Win XP Pro SP2, cygwin 1.5.15-1, xwin 6.8.2.0-1). 
> > All I got was a blank X-screen. I thought it may be a font-problem and 
> > tried:
> >
> > XWin -query 192.168.200.200 -fp "tcp/192.168.200.200:7100"
> >
> > After that, netstat gave me the following two lines on the Linux-box
> >
> > tcp 0 1 192.168.200.200:1091         192.168.68.1:x11   SYN_SENT
> > tcp 0 0 192.168.200.200:font-service 192.168.200.2:1596 CONNECTED
> >
> > where .200.200 is the appserver, .200.2 the winbox and .68.1 something I 
> > never heard of. If you specify the right source-IP with the -from 
> > argument, everything works fine.
> > Do you already know this? Is there any reason for this behavior I 
> > haven't thought of? If not, could someone please confirm, that this is a 
> > bug?
>
> You can specify the address to use with the -from parameter 
>
> XWin -query 192.168.200.200 -from 192.168.200.2 -fp "tcp/192.168.200.200:7100"
obviously

but it doesn't work for me without doing so. I wonder why the xserver 
chooses 192.168.68.1 in this case.

norm