Uncomplicated Firewall blocks playing streames in VLC

Question

Can anybody help me please how to allow IGMP protocol in UFW? My provider streams TV signal. I have .m3u8 file as channel list. It contains items as udp://@239.1.1.42:11111.

VLC does not open the stream. When I disable the firewall, it does.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I am trying to configure a media server in the local net. The server application that I am using is the MediaTomb. It was the single that allowed me to make transcoding of Theora/Vorbis to MP4/mp2.

Then I will configure the ufw according the tips of the MediaTomb's oficial website: "My UPnP player can not see MediaTomb, what is wrong?". Lacks me to know the syntax.

Ref.: Problems allowing outgoing multicast in ufw

You need to know the ports and protocols — TCP and UDP, only? — that the service uses.

Answer 2

For IPTV it is needed to allow both UPD and IGMP protocols.

For UFW edit the /etc/ufw/before.rules file:

# allow IGMP
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p igmp -j ACCEPT
# allow UDP - address range for individual channels
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -d 239.1.2.1/5 --dport 11111 -j ACCEPT

Answer 3

Enable Multicast:

sudo ifconfig eth0 multicast

And do not forget to reconnect. That's it.