Using Firewall Log to Solve upnp Problem

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Running 12.1 with KDE 4.7.2 (4.7.2) "release 5"on T42 laptop.

I have been trying to find a decent working upnp client to run on laptop and play media served by Twonky running on NAS.

In order to test different clients I have had to turn off firewall. I have found VLC to be very poor but XBMC works very well however but I am unwilling to leave firewall off all the time just so I can play media and if firewall is on then no upnp clients will work.

I have not been able to find a reference to what traffic and minimum ports I should open so thought I would turn on firewall and log what packets are stopped when I try to run XBMC. Is this a reasonable approach? If so where is firewall log written. I have turned on logging but cannot find log. Also how can I read it. There used to be a log viewing tool in Yast but it seems to have been removed.

Grateful for advice/assistance please.
Budgie2

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Hi
The UPnP uses UDP port 1900 and TCP port 2869, open those in the
Advanced Settings and you should be fine.

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On 2012-02-09 01:56, Budgie2 wrote:

> If so where is firewall log written.

It is a plain text file in /var/log/firewall. All logs are there. You can
use any text viewer you like, if you open it with root permissions. I use
“less” on a terminal, faster than anything. No need for yast or any special
tools.

But even office would work, if you can make it work in Linux :stuck_out_tongue:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Hi and many thanks. Tried it and all is now well.
Still lament loss of log tool in yast. Where can I get help on this?
Thanks again,
Budgie2

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On 2012-02-10 23:56, Budgie2 wrote:

> Still lament loss of log tool in yast. Where can I get help on this?

Feature removed. Write a bugzilla if you want.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Hi Robin,
I had found /var/log with log files, most ending in log or .log but file “firewall” I could not open. Will try again as root.
Many thanks,
Budgie2

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On 2012-02-12 00:16, Budgie2 wrote:
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> Hi Robin,
> I had found /var/log with log files, most ending in log or .log but
> file “firewall” I could not open. Will try again as root.

Notice that there is a certain group that can read the logs.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)