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I'm watching online TV with VLC and http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u. Does anybody know which ports and protocol must be enabled in my firewall settings? I've been searching on the videolan website, unsuccessfully so far.

Thanks in advance.

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  • the link provided is DEAD
    – Ringtail
    Oct 10, 2012 at 4:17
  • The link is ok, it is the link to the playlist.
    – Alexey
    Nov 13, 2016 at 13:52

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I don't know, but you can install firestarter, where you can disable firewall or see active connections. It's not best firewall manager, but it's easiest way to see active connections. After installing (most options are OK by default, you will see window look similar to this:

Firestarter window

Click on Active connections, and you will see connection name, destination, description and port.

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  • This doesn;t really answer the question. If you added how to use Firestarter's logs to determine what ports must be opened, that would be better.
    – nanofarad
    Sep 19, 2012 at 21:34
  • Did I miss off something? I was stuck in the chapter where "Firestarter is deprecated" and all my answers referring to Firestarter were downvoted.
    – Geppettvs D'Constanzo
    Sep 19, 2012 at 21:56
  • Yes, I know that it is deprecated, but I don't know about any other way to answer this question without using terminal.
    – kubahaha
    Sep 19, 2012 at 22:04
  • I don't mind using the command line.
    – Manu TM
    Sep 20, 2012 at 9:24
  • @kubahaha : I installed Firestarter and was able to see outboung traffic (RTSP protcol) which VLC was sending to one host. I then added a rule to allow inbound traffic from this host and it worked fine (although I had to use port range instead of port 554, so I still must have missed something.) Thanks!
    – Manu TM
    Sep 20, 2012 at 11:05

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