There shouldn't be an && between the ping and "caddis". Please try again.
You can capture the output on caddis like this: ( hostname && ip a && ping -c1 salmo && ip n ) > /tmp/caddis-to-salmo.txt Maybe you can move the resulting file to someplace you can cut/paste. On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, Russell Senior wrote: > > > For each device, show the output of: > > hostname && ip a && ping -c1 <other> && ip n > > where <other> is the other host name. > > As root: > # hostname && ip a && ping -c1 && caddis && ip n > salmo > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group > default qlen 1000 > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > inet6 ::1/128 scope host > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group > default qlen 1000 > link/ether 0c:9d:92:83:6e:27 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > inet 192.168.55.1/24 brd 192.168.55.255 scope global eth0 > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > inet6 fe80::e9d:92ff:fe83:6e27/64 scope link > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > Usage: ping [-aAbBdDfhLnOqrRUvV] [-c count] [-i interval] [-I interface] > [-m mark] [-M pmtudisc_option] [-l preload] [-p pattern] [-Q tos] > [-s packetsize] [-S sndbuf] [-t ttl] [-T timestamp_option] > [-w deadline] [-W timeout] [hop1 ...] destination > > On the laptop I run the command as root in a v.t. When I try highlighting it > and copying output to a text file in anther v.t. it won't copy. > > But, the laptop can ssh into the desktop; it's the other direction that > won't work. > > Rich
