VLC and RTSP behind NAT
Posted: 12 Apr 2020 19:11
Hello,
I'm trying to read RTSP video streams (from mafreebox.freebox.fr) on VLC 3.0.x but every device on my LAN sits behind an internet gateway doing NAT and firewalling. The gateway is a FreeBSD 12.x box running pf as the firewall.
I can read RTSP streams on a particular device on the LAN if I setup a dedicated port redirection in the gateway firewall for the device's IP address and setup fixed port in device's VLC. Obviously it's not a good solution, unless I setup up a different port redirect for every device and I setup every device with a fixed IP address and a different fixed port in their VLC.
I've tried and used osrtspproxy on the FreeBSD gateway, but I couldn't make this work.
I've also tried miniupnpd on the FreeBSD gateway. This software should have allowed each VLC client to create their own ad-hoc port redirection rules in the gateway firewall via UPNP but it didn't work at all (from my Mac, didn't test from a Windows or smartphone).
Any idea?
thanks
I'm trying to read RTSP video streams (from mafreebox.freebox.fr) on VLC 3.0.x but every device on my LAN sits behind an internet gateway doing NAT and firewalling. The gateway is a FreeBSD 12.x box running pf as the firewall.
I can read RTSP streams on a particular device on the LAN if I setup a dedicated port redirection in the gateway firewall for the device's IP address and setup fixed port in device's VLC. Obviously it's not a good solution, unless I setup up a different port redirect for every device and I setup every device with a fixed IP address and a different fixed port in their VLC.
I've tried and used osrtspproxy on the FreeBSD gateway, but I couldn't make this work.
I've also tried miniupnpd on the FreeBSD gateway. This software should have allowed each VLC client to create their own ad-hoc port redirection rules in the gateway firewall via UPNP but it didn't work at all (from my Mac, didn't test from a Windows or smartphone).
Any idea?
thanks