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Using a SSH tunnel/ port forward to connect a TV? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I wanted to improve the security of a TV connecting to a server on a different LAN, and one approach I thought of is to use a RPi on the network to look after the secure connection.

So the pi could connect to the remove server through SSH, and forward the port locally. I thought this port could then be opened, and the TV can then be pointed at the pi on the local network.

Port forwarding to the pi works but I can't connect to it from another device, even after setting firewall settings.

Basically the firewall rule is ufw allow from 192.168.1.0/24 port 1234

Does this idea work, or is there a better approach? Am I missing something in the setup?

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[–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

That worked thanks, I didn't know you could put an address like that in the -L command, and the -N is correct here too

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