[Live-devel] Streaming past a firewall.

[Ross Finlayson]

>Hmm. That's interesting. I know that the server is working on the 
>LAN - it just can't get past the router. I put in the debug info, 
>and find that the actual play request uses the static IP and not the 
>machine's local IP and therefore doesn't work. It starts a session, 
>sets it up, then stalls because the play command uses the "wrong" IP.

OK, your problem is not that you are streaming past a firewall; it's 
that you're streaming past a NAT (Network Address Translation) box.

Please send us the debug output (i.e., RTSP protocol interaction) 
when you (i) use "openRTSP" (with the "-t" option) as your client, 
and (ii) use QuickTime Player as your client.  I'll see if anything 
can be done at the server end to get things working.  (It's possible, 
though, that nothing can be done.  In general a RTSP server should 
have a proper unique - non NATted - IP address.)


	Ross Finlayson
	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
	<http://www.live555.com/>