[Sderby] Power over Ethernet

[Teh Gooroo]

I seem to remember reading something about this in lkml... think it
might be a known bug.. might find a patch in bkbits look for 
"taking_the_piss_ac4.patch"


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:28:41 -0000 (GMT), Mike Hemstock
<hemstock at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting PoE to work through a firewall.  The device
> will not power up using PoE.  If I put a adapter directly into it I can
> see data traveling through the firewall, but not power.  I have ran
> tcpdump and there appears to be no power getting through.  I assume there
> must be a way to create rules to allow power through the firewall, but I
> have grepped the iptables man page and searched on google and can't find
> anything.  I tried doing iptables -F to flush the rules and allow anything
> through, but the firewall is still not passing power.  Does anyone know if
> there are any specific rules to enable power through iptables for Power
> over Ethernet enabled devices?  I assume Power over Ethernet travels via
> UDP?  Does anyone know what port its on?
> 
> Mike.
> 
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