Here is a problem that takes a lot of words to explain. I don't think
it is that tricky though. My ignorance is the main issue.
I have a cable modem connected to a Sonicwall TZ-150 wireless appliance.
The TZ-150 has three interfaces:
WAN: Goes to cable modem.
Wired LAN: Gateway 192.168.0.1, subnet mask 0.0.0.255
Wireless LAN: Gateway 172.16.31.1, subnet mask 0.0.0.255
On the wired LAN, I have my main PC. It appears to be playing well with
the TZ-150.
On the wireless LAN, I have a Netgear EVA700 media extender. This is a
gadget that sends analog audio and video to my living room TV via the
usual RCA type cables. It also has an 802.11g radio.
After very much fiddling around, I finally got the EVA700 to communicate
with the TZ-150!!! It even does WPA. I am so happy.
For my next act, I am trying to bring up a feature which is the main
purpose of the EVA700: serving media (audio and video). Microsoft calls
this upnp, or universal plug and play.
The upnp feature consists of a piece of software on a PC sending audio
and video to a media extender, like the EVA700. The media extender then
displays movies and music on my TV set. In theory. Not in practice.
The EVA700 has no user interface for specifying which server to connect
to. None of the PC software I have tried has a user interface for
specifying what media extender to connect with, UNTIL the connection is
acutually achieved. For example, after the connection is achieved, the
PC software I have allows me to restrict access to certain types of
movies, music, and photos.
Because of these observations (previous paragraph) I believe that the
EVA700 media extender is sending some kind of broadcast request over
802.11g, and waiting for a suitable reply.
I observe that over on my PC, there is a Windows service "Windows Media
Player Network Sharing Service" that is listening on TCP port 10243.
This is one of the ports mentioned in my EVA700 user documentation.
There are other ports, but no process on my PC appears to be listening
to them. The other ports in the documentation are
TCP: 2869, 10243
UDP: 1900, 10280, 10281, 10282, 10283, 10284
So my speculation is that the EVA700 is sending a broadcast request on
port TCP 10243, but it is not being relayed to the main PC. Recall that
the EVA700 is connected to the wireless gateway 172.16.31.1, while
the PC is connected to the wired gateway 192.168.0.1.
I have tried various "firewall" rules on the TZ-150, but I have found
nothing that works. As far as I can tell, the "firewall" is where NAT
is configured on the TZ-150.
If you have read all the way to here, I thank you! I'd love to hear
any suggestions you have.
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David Arnstein (00)
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