pulseaudio+firewall

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Hi all
I am currently using pulseaudio to send audio stream from laptop to desktop computer which is connected to my sound system

Problem:
I have turned off firewall on both(opensuse 11.1) systems while I’m using pulseaudio

I can not configure my firewall to be able to use with pulseaudio

I looking in opensuse wiki http://en.opensuse.org/Pulseaudio but there was no any word about firewall configuration

also I search the official wiki but still has no answer

Can somebody help me with this

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WBR

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Typically, you need to find out what TCP/UDP ports are used by pulseaudio and open those in the firewall. Some programs may use an array of ports! I am not familiar with pulseaudio.

You can find out the ports by running some network packet snooping programs like wireshark.

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@Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:36:03 +0000, syampillai write:

> You can find out the ports by running some network packet snooping
> programs like wireshark.

Thank you for a quick reaply

but i have a problem with wireshark too

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <skipped>
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1906502 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:896228 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2429128850 (2316.5 Mb) TX bytes:85878570 (81.9 Mb)
Interrupt:252 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:161283 (157.5 Kb) TX bytes:161283 (157.5 Kb)

but when I start wireshark it could not see my network device

:~> wireshark
dumpcap: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done

maybe somebody know which port(s) and protocol are used in pulseaudio

WBR

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@Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:08:44 +0000, didencool write:

> :~> wireshark
> dumpcap: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done

I run wireshark as root and it run OK

i found that protocol is TCP
src port is 4713
destination port is 59352

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WBR

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The terminal version of wireshark is easy to use.
As root, type the following:

tethereal -i eth0