I’d like to have a port open for some streaming radio stations. However, I don’t know if they are UDP or TCP or what “direction” to have them set up (inbound or outbound). I also don’t know if they should be set up for “host” or “dynamic”. The stations I’m interested in are the 181.fm channels mostly (shoutcast stations). We have a Westell A90 type modem/router from Verizon.
I’ve been looking for a tutorial on how to do this but I can’t find anything that would tell me what I need to know.
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:06:03 +0000, gymnart wrote:
> I’d like to have a port open for some streaming radio stations. However,
> I don’t know if they are UDP or TCP or what “direction” to have them set
> up (inbound or outbound). I also don’t know if they should be set up for
> “host” or “dynamic”. The stations I’m interested in are the 181.fm
> channels mostly (shoutcast stations). We have a Westell A90 type
> modem/router from Verizon.
>
> I’ve been looking for a tutorial on how to do this but I can’t find
> anything that would tell me what I need to know.
If you are listening from your system, you shouldn’t need to open any
ports - just launch the app on your workstation and listen away.
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The firewall has been set to medium security so as a result, it blocks the majority of the radio streaming ports. I can only get less than a handful. The really good ones are using the ports that have been blocked. 
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:36:04 +0000, gymnart wrote:
> The firewall has been set to medium security so as a result, it blocks
> the majority of the radio streaming ports. I can only get less than a
> handful. The really good ones are using the ports that have been
> blocked.
Chances are it’s on a dynamic high port, not a fixed port.
Jim
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Thanks!
Is there a Linux equivalent of this Windows command? “netstat -ano” ?
(it shows the ports that are being used or attempting to be used, and shows the info about the ports, what type it is, the domain being used and whether the traffic is inbound or outbound.)
On 07/20/2011 07:16 PM, gymnart wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
> Is there a Linux equivalent of this Windows command? “netstat -ano” ?
> (it shows the ports that are being used or attempting to be used, and
> shows the info about the ports, what type it is, the domain being used
> and whether the traffic is inbound or outbound.)
>
>
I would say that Linux equivalent for netstat -ano is netstat -ano.
Also a good one:
man netstat
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here is my latest with the attempt to open ports for radio:
the ports are set to dynamic and the type is set to both tcp and udp. The port numbers have been put in also. However, I still can’t get any streams on the 8000’s to come in. only the ones in the 1000’s.
When I did netstat -natp I saw this for amarok:
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 1 <I removed the local address for this> 72.13.81.178:8065 SYN_SENT 8431/amarok
I looked up “syn_sent” and found out that the general assumption is that the receiving computer is ignoring that packet, and will not make the connection. How can I fix this? I don’t understand, why do the stations using the ports in the 1000’s work but not the 8000’s which I thought were allowed when we tried to open the ports.
Ok, we got it now. The firewall had to be configured separately for both inbound and outbound traffic. We had It set for only inbound because we didn’t know that this particular router needed to be set for both. Our previous one was much simpler to set up, all we had to do was put in the port numbers and that is what we were used to.