Slingbox

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Slingbox

Slingbox is a device which connects to your home TV/Cable/Satellite service and allows you to view it over the internet on another device (computer, PDA, etc.) The University of Akron does not allow traffic on port 5001 (slingbox's port); because of this, normal port forwarding on your router will not work for the Slingbox. For this to work you will need the following

A SSH client (openssh for Linux, PuTTY or cygwin with openssh for windows)
A router forwarding port 22 to an SSH server
A machine with an SSH server. This machine should be on the same network as the Slingbox
A Slingbox

Note: Installing an ssh server and setting up cygwin is beyond the scope of this HOWTO.

Verify that your slingplayer works on your home network.

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OpenSSH

For the openssh option issue the following command

user@localhost$ ssh -L 5001:slingboxIP:5001 user@sshserver

Replace "slingboxIP" with the IP of your slingbox within your network (ie. 192.168.1.119) and "sshserver" with the IP address of your router (i.e. 24.166.69.248)

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PuTTY

To tunnel using PuTTY, in the connection dialog box go to Connection->SSH->Tunnels and at the bottom for the source port is the same as above and the destination should be: "slingboxIP:5001. Also below that make sure local is selected. Then click the add button. Don't close the PuTTY window or your connection will also close.^[1]

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