I have two sets of Plan 9 system within different IP domain, one of which is sitting behind the firewall made by a brordband router and using fossil+venti+ auth/cpu server and terminals(Plan 9-1). Another is using Ken's fs, standalone auth server, cpu server, and terminals (Plan 9-2).
When I use drawtrerm for Wn XP (belong th the same domain as Plan9-2), it does work fine by such the command as drawterm -a 'IP of auth server' -c 'IP of cpu server(=auth server)'. It's fine, no excess time are neccessary, just done within 30 seconds. ---fact 1 Then, I tried drawterm for linux (newest stable Debian actually) as the same command also from the outside of the Plan 9-1 domain. In this case, I have to wait 3 to 4 minutes until loging in the cpu server behind the firewall. ---fact 2 Then, I tried to use the Plan 9-1 system from another Plan 9-2 system I have. First, I made 9fs from a terminal of Plan 9-2 to the cpu server of the Plan 9-2, and got good success. This was done also withing 30 seconds. I have a line of auth='machine name of the broadband router' authdom='auth domain of that Plan 9 system behind the router' in /lib/ndb/local file on the Plan 9-2 system. ---fact 3 Lastly, I tried to login to the Plan 9-1 system behind the firewall from the above Plan 9-2 system, and now I have problem. When I booted the Plan 9 kernel from floppy drive (the kernel was read from the Plan 9-2 standalone auth server), I had to wait 5 minutes until some response from the Plan 9-1 auth server behind the firewall. It asked password, and I typed it, then, I can reach the CPU server, not the Plan 9 system. I suppose this is same as cpu command, and then, I have no display for rio. ---fact 4 questions: Why I can 9fs but not login? Why such a long time were necceessary for Linux and Plan9 to get factotum responce? What is different between drawterm and ordinal login mechanism? Thanks in advance, Kenji --now in big confusion
