How do I allow upnp media play?

[Joe Julian]

I've set my wife up with fedora 18 and have had to disable firewalld in 
order to allow her to watch stuff on our media server. I'd like to 
configure things correctly though. It looks like we query the ssdp port 
on the media server over udp and that reply is blocked.

This seems odd since the client sends an ssdp query to the server first. 
I would have expected the RELATED,ESTABLISHED to match.

What's the right way to allow this to connect?

[Thomas Woerner]

On 03/12/2013 11:11 PM, Joe Julian wrote:
> I've set my wife up with fedora 18 and have had to disable firewalld in
> order to allow her to watch stuff on our media server. I'd like to
> configure things correctly though. It looks like we query the ssdp port
> on the media server over udp and that reply is blocked.
>
> This seems odd since the client sends an ssdp query to the server first.
> I would have expected the RELATED,ESTABLISHED to match.
>
> What's the right way to allow this to connect?

This depends on mulicast or unicast use in the server and client.

Here is a test service entry for UPNP:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<service>
   <short>UPNP</short>
   <description></description>
   <port protocol="udp" port="1900"/>
   <destination ipv4="239.255.255.250"/>
</service>

Please place it in /etc/firewalld/services/upnp.xml and activate it in 
the zone you are using.

Is this working for you?