On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:51:45 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, >>> I get: >>> >>> ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.194 port 22: No route to host >> >> (...) >> >> 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?
Yes, please run it ("/sbin/ifconfig") and put here the output. > And that did not change after the failure... We cannot know unless you provide additional data :-) "No route to host" usually means "I cannot see the machine at all" and "I cannot see the machine at all" usually involves: a) SSH service is not running on the client b) IP of the client is unreachable Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.07.22.16.00...@gmail.com