[AG-TECH] Fedora/Linux iptables for AG
Ti Leggett
leggett at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Jul 9 07:43:39 CDT 2004
For one thing, rat requires a local multicast loopback to communicate.
So you'll need to allow either
iptables -A INPUT -s 224.0.0.0/4 -j ACCEPT
or
iptables -A OUTPUT -d 224.0.0.0/4 -j ACCEPT
or both possibly.
That's a first guess.
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:45, Joshua M. Brown wrote:
> Fred Dech wrote:
>
> >speaking of firewalls...
> >i repeatedly installed and uninstalled, etc., etc., the FC2 RPMs courtesy of
> >http://osl.cpe.ku.ac.th
> >and Sugree Phatanapherom yum instructions by way of Michael Miller.
> >Thanks Sugree!
> >but i could't even get a videoConsumer to run, let alone RAT. huh?
> >very frustrating, but no monitors broken ;^)
> >
> >as i was reading the XP firewall thread it dawned on me that the FedoraCore2
> >firewall interface had been simplified to ON/OFF. i disabled it and RAT
> >came up and my videoConsumer started receiving streams...
> >
> >since i'd prefer to have a semblance of a firewall, i just have to learn
> >how to set up iptables to allow the right range of tcp/udp ports access.
> >
> >
> i was wondering that kinda thing myself. i've not seen an enumeration of
> all ports (all, for whatever reason at any/all times) that AG uses. i
> spose i could analyze my traffic, but don't want to miss any "corner
> cases" that could trip it up.
>
> Anyone have a list like that?
>
> jmb
>
> >i'd appreciate any pointers ;^)
> >
> >--fred
> >
> >
> >
>
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