Re: RealPlayer and iptables

From: Anders Larsen (a.larsen@identecsolutions.de)
Date: 05/08/02 

From: Anders Larsen <a.larsen@identecsolutions.de>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 10:48:41 +0200

John Thompson wrote:

> In article <pan.2002.05.07.07.48.58.166330.1013@identecsolutions.de>, Anders Larsen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> OK. I have been using squid here on port 3128. Do I need to make any
> modifications in the rules to reflect that?

If squid is otherwise working, you don't have to change anything on
your firewall to use RealPlayer (so we're now getting off-topic).

You must, however, configure the RealPlayer Transport to 'Use HTTP Only'
in the RTSP and PNA Settings, and point the HTTP proxy settings to
squid (you don't need to specify any PNA or RTSP proxy).

That configuration works fine here (but of course YMMV).

HTH
Cheers
  Anders

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