Re: [WinMac] Streaming Media Behind a Firewall

Richard Laycock(rlaycock[at]earthlink.net)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:53:25 -0800 (PST)

>I don't know if I can answer this but the little I know from looking at the
>Real Player preferences is that the Real player uses port 1090 to connect
>to a Real server via TCP (if it can't use http and many servers aren't set
>up to use http) and perhaps the firewall administrator has to make that
>port available to users behind the firewall.

I did set up a UDP mapping to port 1090 for Real Player. The browsers
(Netscape and IE) are still only mapped to port 80 as usual. This works for
G2 and the earlier versions. The proxy is on a pc. Mac and pc clients
access fine.

                      Richard L.

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