From: Paul Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inbound UDP traffic?
The RealPlayer sends udp resend requests back to the RealServer when it
detects loss.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, RealForum wrote:
> From: Dennis Shiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Inbound UDP traffic?
>
> I forgot to mention -- I highly suspect that this is coming from RealPlayer
> users who were watching a live event that we were streaming at the time.
>
> -Dennis.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dennis Shiao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:55 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Inbound UDP traffic?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a filtering router that sits in front of my RealServer. The
router
> > is
> > logging ACL violations for what appear to RealPlayer accesses from end
> > users.
> > Here is an example:
> >
> > APR 5 13:47:40 5/1 606167 ACL-7: NO ACL rule match! Discarding packet
> > APR 5 13:47:40 5/1 606168 ACL-7: UDP SrcPort: 6970 DestPort: 11602
> > APR 5 13:47:40 5/1 606169 ACL-7: Source: <random IP address>
> > APR 5 13:47:40 5/1 606170 ACL-7: Dest: <IP address of my RealServer V7>
> >
> > My understanding is that UDP traffic would be completely unidirectional,
> > from
> > the RealServer to the RealPlayer. The ACL warning (above) seems to
indicate
> > that RealPlayer is now sending traffic back to RealServer. Anyone
know what
> > is
> > going on here?
> >
> > -Dennis.
>
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