Re: Streaming Flash

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:23:05 +0100 John G Walker
<[email protected]> wrote:

 
> Is there any problem in defining my own protocol that opens up port
> 1935?
> 
> Also: what is "Tunneling" and what might the default that timed out
> be?
> 

Funny how, once you formulate your confusions into questions, the
answers can appear a lot easier to get at.

So, to answer my own questions:

I found a technical note from Adobe
(http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16499)
which states that port 1935 is the port for the Real-Time Messaging
Protocol, used by Flash. So it seems I'm okay in setting that up as a
user-defined protocol.

The port can be altered at the server, so I presume the "default port"
test is a test for whatever the server has defined. Anyway that test
also works if I open port 1935.

"Tunneling", I discovered by trial and error, is (in Guarddog terms)
connecting from the local zone to the internet zone. Port 1935 needs to
be open in both directions.

I learned a lot sorting this out, and it reaffirmed how easy Guarddog
is to configure once you know what you want to do. 

Hope this post helps archive-searchers,

-- 
 All the best,
 John

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