Almut Behrens wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:14:41PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Very trivial question. I have two machines workA, homeB. Let's say I am
sitting at workA and run an nxclient session to connect to homeB. Now in
this homeB session, I open a konsole and download 1GB file (using wget).
Will this be counted as network traffic of 1GB on homeB or network
traffic of 1GB on workA? I ask because, I pay for network usage at workA
but at homeB it is free.
Unless you've tunneled port 80 (or whichever port wget is using) from
home back to work, the file will be downloaded via your home network.
(I'm assuming there's a seperate internet connection at work and at
home.) By default, NX will only forward your X display, so that's the
only traffic you'll have to pay for... IOW, nothing to worry about.
BUT Make sure you understand that the resulting downloaded data is now
on homeB not workA. Any further manipulation you wish to do on the data
will have to be conducted using tools on homeB, not workA, because the
data hasn't actually been transferred to workA. Of course you can
control such manipulation from workA as you did the download in the
first place, but if this data is for example an image and you expect to
be able to use some image manipulation tool on workA to work with it
that's going to entail transferring the data again, this time from homeB
to workA, and that means paying for the transfer judging by the info you
provided in your inital post...
Will there be any difference in the answer if I use ssh instead of nxclient?
Hardly any. nxclient might cause somewhat less traffic than ssh with X
forwarding, because NX is highly optimized for just that... If you can
live with just a remote terminal login (no X GUI), then ssh will cause
even less traffic, of course.
Cheers,
Almut
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