No biggie- just curious 1

[shrubble]

I was pondering this, and wondering if someone could give me the super atomic kung-fu answer:

How does Citrix (and terminal server in general) handle DHCP? I know from the perspective of the LAN, a terminal server has a single addressable subnet IP, but does that terminal server then create its own subnet/lease schema to deal (internally) with whomever is logged on at that moment?

I understand that the management console is able to show you the various processes in use by the various users, and that the terminal services cleanly separate each logged on user, I guess what I'm wondering is what the DHCP relationship/process is between a remote user logged on in Canada, for instance, and the LAN workstation sitting next to me.

Does this question even make sense?!

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[Ogi]

Hi,

Each user speaks to Citrix on a port from 1023 upwards, also, Citrix stores the username, ip address and alsorts of client info in the Datastore so that if you disconnect from one PC you can go to another and log in as that user.

Try:-

netstat -n

That will show you all the network connections to that server and the ports.

Does that help any?
Carl.

 

[shrubble]

So Citrix works entirely off of IP address/username combo, and then talks to the rest of the LAN under its own subnet address?

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[shrubble]

Thanks for the cool tip! I've used netstat for every other server we have for a variety of purposes, but never really had a reason to use it on the Citrix box. I ported the netstat -a to a text file, and was very much enlightened about a lot of things by perusing the file.

Thanks!

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[shrubble]

OOPS! I meant to type netstat -n above, but you get the point...

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[Ogi]

Hi,

Glad that helped you.

Cheers,
Carl.