[clue-tech] Webcam through a firewall?

[Shawn Perry]

Wireshark is your friend, as is jnettop.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Robert L. Harris
> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>   I just got a Vivotek webam server up and running.  Working great
>> inside my network.
>> I want to make the stream externally visible to some friends back in
>> Georgia though and
>> am trying to punch the right holes in my firewall.
> Hey Robert,
>
> I suggest using Firefox with the Live HTTP Headers extension to see
> which ports Firefox is attempting to use. The output is a little long
> and hard to read...but you're used to that if you're editing iptables
> ;)
>
> Just install the extension, turn it on, and make a request for the
> page from outside the firewall. Then save the http headers to a text
> file and review it to see which ports/protocols it is using. Some of
> these systems use a dynamic port, though often it can be reduced to a
> range of ports.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg
>
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