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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