WhatsApp Calls through IPFilter - How do I allow?

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 07:57:20 UTC 2016


On 25 February 2016 at 18:00, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016, at 05:04, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > I have a network where FreeBSD acts as the gateway. I use IPFilter as the
> > firewall.
> >
> > I have users with smartphones who'd like to use Whatsapp call feature but
> > the firewall is blocking these. I have googled and found
> > https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/issues/358 which seems to talk about
> the
> > ports that I need to open, but even after following that, I still cannot
> > get this working. My IPFilter rules are these ->
> > http://pastebin.com/77YrMEEG
> >
> > Hopefully someone can see what I am missing or knows what I should do.
> > I am currently away from the box and with bad Internet, I cannot easily
> > do
> > packet capture to analyze... I know iy sounds lazy, but I also hope this
> > wheel has already been invented and is spinning already...
> >
> >
>
> Do you end up getting log entries for the blocked traffic?
>
> --
>   Mark Felder
>   ports-secteam member
>   feld at FreeBSD.org
>

I do't see anything written to the logfile.
However, I have identified the rules blocking the traffic. I just need to
get the ports used by Whatsapp for calls and I'll get this sorted.


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