From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Robby Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [9fans] Drawterm or VMWare terminal? Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:35:04 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 740c34fe-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi, I am wondering if it is worthwhile to boot a VMWare Plan 9 at work from my home network or if using drawterm is better. I have a CPU/Auth server sitting in my home network behind a NAT router with port forwarding (Netgear RT311). At the moment I am forwarding ports 567 and 17013 to the CPU/Auth server and I can use drawterm on my NT box at work to connect. I have also started playing with VMWare. Would it be sensible to boot a proper terminal across the long wires of the internet? Which ports would I need to forward and how much does that open my local home network up to the world? As far as I can see, two options are available for running the terminal under VMWare: 1. Boot a VMWare local 9pc kernel, but take the root from il. 2. Get the kernel from my home server as well. With just the two ports 567 and 17013 forwarded, I can't get the VMWare kernel to connect to my home server. At the question "root is from (il, local):" I type "il", and then get asked about my filesystem and auth server IP addresses, to which I provide the IP address to my router. I then get a "boot: can't connect to file server: protocol unreachable" error. Thanks for any help, Robby