How to configure firewall to watch IPTV with VLC (SUSE 11.3)?

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Hello!

I’ve searched a lot across the web and this forum in particular, but wasn’t able to find the solution. The settings of the firewall are too cryptic to me.

When the firewall is turned off everything is OK, but it is uncomfortable to turn it on and off every time I watch IPTV.

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Hi,

You have to know wich port you have to open on the firewall.

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Seems to be 1234

There are values like “u d p : / / @ 2 3 3 . 1 6 6 . 1 7 2 . 1 3 4 : 1 2 3 4” in my playlist.

I tried to add the a user rule to allow UDP for incoming port 1234 from 0/0 and from the router IP but had no success.

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Hummm. I am not in front of my openSUSE right now, but from the udp value you gave, it is clear that you need to open port 1234.

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Yes. But in which tab of the firewall? I’ve tried some options but firewall says that ports are still locked. Seems that I have to open not only UDP but TCP too. And it worked somehow when I played with Multicast settings of the TCP in the firewall, but unfortunately I deleted these settings and can’t remember what was there(((

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Yeah, you are right, you’ll have to open udp and tcp. But I don’t know how apparmor really works. In yast, I think you have to add a new profile et give the required information, but I am not sure.

EDIT : check this out, I found this for you : http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/network-internet/449946-how-open-port.html :wink:

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Thank you for the information. Unfortunately the problem is not to open some ports (I’ve already opened them all but it doesn’t work) but to open them for the multicast.

I will continue my quest and if I’ll work it out I will update the information here.

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What do you mean by multicast?

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One have to enablemulticast streams to watch the IPTV. It is enabled in my router (in its settings) and in my OS:

$ route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 dev eth0

(that’s from some instruction).

There is a tab (5-th from the top in KDE) in the brandmawer settings wich is related to multicast as I suppose (I have a Russian locale so I can not say how it is named in English exactly). During my experiments with settings in this tab I was able to achieve the goal but I was experimenting with other settings at the same moment and thought that the other settings succeed an deleted multicast settings.