Dish Network DVR
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Newbie on the forum. Many years as lead troubleshooter for major telecom until medically retired after brain injury. Got tired of limitations on plastic boxes so threw together a pfSense box and bought the book. Running ver. 2.0.2 with HAVP, pfblocker, nut, squid and snort on home system. Plastic boxes still online as wire linked APs with dd-wrt for pass offs (house is looooong). I seem to have everything up and running to my wants/needs except the Dish Network DVRs (3). Boxes are getting IP and show "connected". Diagnostic run from DVR shows phone line and network are good. Cannot get the online access to movies working. If I yank the pfsense PC and go back to the blue box, all is well so I know it's not the network hardware or wiring. Anyone have any experience with this issue or ideas for resolving this. TIA
rick
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Do they require UPnP maybe? We disable that by default for security reasons but many consumer-grade devices enable it by default. I'm not familiar with how those DVRs work and I'm guessing others aren't either, maybe if you can point to some technical docs if they have something on how to configure your router to work with it, we can offer more specific suggestions.
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@cmb:
Do they require UPnP maybe?
Actually they don't use UPnP… I feared that too but when I called their tech support that was one piece they did know... otherwise they really weren't very knowledgeable of their own product. I played around with the logs as best I could (focus is very difficult with my disability) found it was a squid issue. Fixed now, but I'll have to find my journal to remember what it was.
Thanks,
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I'm having the same problem and I am running squid. If you have a fix please share. ;D
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My guess is set the Dish DVR to a static mapping in DHCP, and then add that IP to the source bypass list for squid so it doesn't get put through the proxy.
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I have the DVR on static DHCP. Under Groups ACL I have the Static IP set to [all] on the the filter but still nothing.
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On the main squid page, use the source bypass box, not an ACL, to let the DVR around the proxy.
