[afnog] VNC Problem

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 02:32:29PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:25:43PM +0300, byaruhj at mtn.co.ug wrote:
> >    the compression on the vnc client on my machine
> 
> OK, well that will change the data pattern generated - maybe you will get
> smaller packets more often.
> 
> I suggest you perform the packet capture as previously suggested to track
> down the problem.

Just to expand on that: you're very unlikely to be able to fix a *network*
problem by tinkering with the *application*

An application like VNC makes use of TCP, which in turn makes use of IP.
It's perfectly entitled to send whatever data it likes; it relies on TCP to
take care of sequencing and retransmission, and IP to take care of datagram
delivery.

It sounds to me like there's a problem with datagram delivery, so the place
to investigate is at the network layer, not the application.

Regards,

Brian.