On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Russell Senior wrote: > Ping and ordinary traceroute is an inadequate test. ICMP ping requests are > sometimes dropped. You should also test with tcptraceroute, which > disguises itself as a regular TCP connection and is much less likely to be > dropped. You can try port 80 or port 22, and that should tell you where > the packets get lost, e.g.: > > $ tcptraceroute <ipaddr> <port> > > One possibility is that your IP address was stale and pointing at > someone different than your server. There are many other possiblities.
Russell, I checked the IP address and used the current one each time. Thanks for the pointer to tcptraceroute. Could the problem be that I no longer use port 22 for ssh? Before I left I tested the ssh connection using the high port number on the LAN and it worked flawlessly in both directions. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
