Re: RealPlayer and iptables

From: John Thompson (john@starfleet.attglobal.net)
Date: 05/07/02 

From: John Thompson <john@starfleet.attglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 13:21:04 GMT

In article <pan.2002.05.07.07.48.58.166330.1013@identecsolutions.de>, Anders Larsen wrote:

> John Thompson wrote:
>
>> I have been unable to configure iptables and/or RealPlayer to work
>> together. RealPlayer works fine on local files and without iptables, but
>> when iptables is running RealPlayer dies with "unable to connect" errors.
>> I have the following iptables rules:
> [snipped]

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> By far the easiest way to get the RealPlayer to work is to configure it
> to use http: as its transport protocol.
> You can then either have iptables forward port 80 or even use a Squid
> proxy.
>
> If you're running RealPlayer on the firewall, then
>
> iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A OUTPUT -o ppp0 -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW \
> -j ACCEPT
>
> should do the job.

OK. I have been using squid here on port 3128. Do I need to make any
modifications in the rules to reflect that?

Thanks... 

-- 

-John (John.Thompson@attglobal.net)

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