>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
Rich> 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. Rich> Russell, Rich> I checked the IP address and used the current one each time. Rich> Thanks for the pointer to tcptraceroute. Rich> Could the problem be that I no longer use port 22 for ssh? Rich> Before I left I tested the ssh connection using the high port Rich> number on the LAN and it worked flawlessly in both directions. Your gateway router will have a port forward. If it is pointing at port 22 and you don't use that locally, then yes that could explain it. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
