On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, [email protected] wrote:
My guess is that the SSH traffic is being routed toward the connection refused computer and the connection refused computer needs its firewall configured to allow incoming SSH.
No LAN host has a firewall configured, other than any Slackware installation default.
I'd check your network routing to ensure SSH traffic is permitted to go to both machines, and to make sure you have no rules redirecting all traffic on that port to one machine.
As I wrote, the laptop connects to the desktop; it's only the other direction that's not working. Neither computer is external to the LAN. Rich
