[THIN] Re: FW: Re: OT - IP address

  • From: Mark Cook <mc@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:37:39 +0100

Only if you rely on this IP address I guess !  
 
Niether Citrix nor TS use it internally otherwise it would be reporting the
actual connecting address me thinks!?  
 
In theory, if the session is still active you should be able to map the
connection from the terminal services server process (on 2k should be to
termsrv.exe & on 2k3 should be to an svchost.exe process) to the client
session but would need some intense work to achieve this I think ?
 
If anyone's done any work on this I'd love to talk to you off list about
it...
 
Mark
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Smith [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 27 October 2004 15:11
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FW: Re: OT - IP address
 
Is there a potential probelm if two users are using the same IP address on
their two different networks?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cook [mailto:mc@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 27 October 2004 15:02
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] FW: Re: OT - IP address
Sorry, that might not have been totally clear.  The actual ICA or RDP client
that connects to the server reports it's IP address (ie. That of the local
machine) when the connection is established, this is what you can see in the
CMC or TSadmin !
 
Mark
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cook [mailto:mc@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 27 October 2004 14:54
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT - IP address
 
Yup, the ICA (& RDP) protocol API's all report the actual IP address of the
connecting client and not the IP address that is being routed through in
this case !  It suck's but that's how the protocol works unfortunately.  You
can't even tracert them because it's not a valid IP address, unless anyone
know's a way to ID the IP of the connecting router involved and if so I'd
love to know how (obviously you can trawl though Winsock call's and inet
stuff but is there a higher level way to achieve this) ?
 
Mark
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Beckett [mailto:Bill.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 27 October 2004 14:10
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] OT - IP address
 
Just wanted to know if anyone has any thoughts on this. I check our security
logs every day and noticed something that to me at least, is odd. A user
logs in from home and said user has a broadband connection and a wireless
router (Linksys, netgear, that variety). If I check the security log and
look at when the user disconnected from their session it has the EXTERNAL
address provided by the ISP. However, if I go into Citrix Metaframe Admin
and look at their disconnected session which is still hanging out there, hit
the Information tab, it gives me the internal address (192.x.x.x in this
case) of the PC behind the router. So, eventvwr gives the ISP assigned IP
while MFAdmin gives the interal IP. Anyone know why the difference?

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