Direct xbian through SSH tunnel

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So I got it working, but not via a proxy connection to a machine that was connected to the tunnel.

It occurred to me that xbian should be no different to the laptop configurations I used where I redirected internet traffic using a SOCKS proxy that binded to a dynamic port redirect through the tunnel.

So, to get it working I ssh'd to the raspberry running xbian from a terminal

Terminal

> ssh xbian@194.168.1.104

Entered the password (raspberry) and then from the terminal started up a dynamic port redirect through the tunnel to the UK:

Terminal

> ssh -D 1080:username@mytunnel.IP

Then under the iplayer configuration I selected a SOCKS 4 proxy and entered "mytunnel.IP" for the IP address and "1080" as the port. I entered my username, password not required for SOCKS4.

Voila as they say. iplayer now routes itself through the tunnel, all other traffic uses my home connection here in canada. So I can get at UK TV now. Sweet.

Going to try and repeat using TVCatchup now. But struggling to get that plugin working.

Thanks all for making my brain think a bit more about what I was trying to do!!