On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:55:16 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed 20 Jul 2011 at 14:51:45 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> Yep, as Walter suggested, this can be a problem with DHCP that has > >> given another IP to the laptop. If you have only two machines in > >> the LAN, give them static IPs so you don't have to depend on your > >> router's DHCP eccentricities :-) > >> > > > > But the IP should show up in ifconfig, no? And that did not change > > after the failure... > > The advice is still not unsound though. It will take DHCP out of > consideration. > > Is the problem one which appears after being able to ssh to the laptop > successfully at some earlier time, like 5 minutes ago? What happens > with ping/traceroute/ssh/telnet/route/arp from desktop to laptop and > vice versa? Is there wireless on either machine? Does taking down the > firewall on the router make any difference? > > Another line of thought: being a laptop, does it go into standby or hibernation? Debian doesn't have a great record for waking up the machine properly afterwards. Not without first doing some research using Ubuntu... -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110722082917.72be9...@jresid.jretrading.com
