Supporting X Applications through the Firewall

The Internet is a very convenient neteork, but not always a So.many orvanizations often require administrative security policies when they want to connect with ther organizations thtough a pubic network.A firewall is one way of protecting an internal network from the untrusted extemal network with a mechanism for selectively permiting or blocking traffic between the intermal network and the extermal network. The firewall also provides some limited Intemet access such as Ftp.Telet, etc.Usually , through a firewall system, X applications running on the extermal network may not access an X display on the intermal network.Thus, X applications run-ning on the extemal network are not supported through the usual firewall.In this paper, we propose a method of suppoting X application programs effedtively dffectvely through the firewall, overcoming this restriction.