This is amazing - there is no noticeable difference between running my Sun Ray from the server in the garage and the server in the office via the hardware VPN!
I haven't even got rid of the full picture background that gnome is using. I have tried to break it :- switching virtual desktops, fine scrolling in Mozilla with pictures, audio streaming, video streaming. OK, the last went a bit to far and the picture was breaking up a little, but what do you expect - I am running this over the internet.
I am seriously impressed with this.
And you know what, there is nothing special about this, anyone can do it with Sun Ray 3.0.
In my setup its a Cisco 831, but any VPN router hardware should work as long as it can can do either DHCP relay to the Sun Ray servers or provide a local DHCP with an X Window Display Manager list option to list the Sun Ray server IP addresses. The packets size should also be reduced so that packets are not fragmented by the encryption overhead of the hardware VPN.
It should just work - all of your issues with virus, spyware infected home PCs accessing the corporate network are gone!
Now that my home Sun Ray server isn't being used for the moment, it's going to get reinstalled with the latest Solaris 9 + Sun Ray 3.0. Of course I am not going to do this manually, I will break the current mirror, jumpstart one disk using JET, copy across my data, test and then remirror.
Paul
I've been using it for a while now. And not even on SR 3.0. Will be even better with 3.0.
I did a test using Linux as the base OS, and it worked too.
Posted by iwan rahabok on December 08, 2004 at 05:08 AM GMT #
As a matter of interest, how much bandwidth does your connection have? And is this just a regular broaband connection? (In other words, can I use my existing entry-level NTL connection?)
Posted by Peter T on December 10, 2004 at 09:21 PM GMT #