RE: [TCLUG:12035] Streaming Quicktime

["sandy" <pani@frontiernet.net>]

The RTP/RTSP uses ports 554, and those between 6970 and 6999. You will 
need to use port forwarding or redirection on your slackware box. Lookup
port forwarding on the IP masquerade howto.

hope this helps,
sandipan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Erickson [mailto:gsa700@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 7:21 PM
> To: TC LUG
> Subject: [TCLUG:12035] Streaming Quicktime
> 
> 
> I have a Slackware Box running IP Masquerading for an NT Box. I am
> wondering if any of you know what I would have to do to enable streaming
> Quicktime 4 on the NT Box.
> 
> In other words, how do I change the firewall to allow Quicktime to work?
> I did read the ipchains man page but I don't want to screw up here and
> open up more than I have to.
> 
> Perhaps I need to load one of the IP Masquerading Modules? 
> 
> The Apple Web Site has the following to say:
> 
> <!--
> If you have a home or small business network in which several computers
> are connected to the Internet through an ISDN, ADSL, cable modem, or
> other high speed connection, you may run into problems accessing
> QuickTime movies streamed with the RTP/RTSP protocol. If your access
> device performs 'network address translation', allowing multiple
> computers at your site to share a single IP address, then you will need
> that router to understand RTSP. 
> 
> You can solve this problem in a number of ways:
> 
> Don't share IP addresses; get a real IP address for every host that
> needs to see streamed content. This could be statically assigned, or
> assigned using DHCP.
> 
> Contact your router vendor for a software update.
> -->
> 
> Any help is always appreciated.
> 
> --
> Dave Erickson
> "Welcome to the Jungle..."
>             -- W. Axle Rose
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