How to set IP range in Xservers file configuration ?

[intmail01]

What are methods to let xdm to know the IP of terminals through XDMCP ?

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 8:09 PM Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 12/29/24 06:52, intmail01 wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Are there any methods to list IP address in Xservers file configuration
> by using
> > wildcard or any form of address range ? Because IP can not be known in
> advance
> > for terminal and they can be set randomly by the dhcp.
> > I try to set an wildcard like 172.168.0.*:0 but it doesnt work.
>
> Do you mean the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file used by the xdm display manager?
> If so, then no, because each entry is a display to be managed, so something
> like 172.168.0.*:0 would start up 256 display managers, each trying to
> contact one of those IP addreesses to run an X session on.
>
> If you can't configure the DHCP server to give stable addresses to the X
> terminals, then you'll need to configure the X terminals to use XDMCP to
> let the xdm server know what IP address they're running on.
>
> --
>          -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>           Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
>
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