Re: How to find NAT'ed address

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From: Ronald Cole
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:47

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kejoseph@hotmail.com (Kevin Joseph) writes:
> I am connecting to a remote Unix box using its NAT'ed IP address. I
> want to X-Display something back onto my local PC using X-Client. To
> do this I need to provide the remote system the IP address of my local
> PC (via the DISPLAY variable ).
>   How do I find out the NAT'ed address of my PC which I need to feed
> to the DISPLAY variable ?

It doesn't work that way.  The easiest way to do what you want is to
use "ssh -X" to connect to the remote machine.  See the ssh man page
for details.

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Subject: Re: How to find NAT'ed address
Date: 18 Aug 2002 17:47:07 -0700
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