[MPlayer-users] about the mms:// support/problems Fwd: Re: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [BUG] in mms support

[Felix Buenemann]

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 13:31, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:03:30AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > MMSU stand for MMS over UDP, the trouble with this
> > protocol is it only work for external IP people, firewall, NAT
> > and other gateway will drop the incoming UDP packets.
>
> Hm, I am DNAT-ing ports 7070 and 7071 UDP from my router to my workstation.
> RealPlayer seemed to be using them... no problems. Maybe the mms protocol
> is a bit different, just like the problems I had with ohphone (from
> openh323.org) because the IP address was exchanged during the communication
> and no NAT-ing could do the trick. Cannot test though - Linux only.
using DNAT helps, BUT only for a single computer, so not multiple systems 
behind a NAT/Masq-Router can use it, unless there are special masquerading 
modules, which are rarely available especially for iptables.
-- 
Best Regards,
        Atmos
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