> I'm watching tcpdump to try to find out why an ssh connection to a server is
>failing. (errors and info below)
> What's puzzling me is that it looks like my client keeps incrementing the port it's
>using, even though I'm getting packets back from the server side.
>
> Anyone know why this is? Or what might cause the ssh error?
If the connection fails, it retries automatically up to five times.
This is because on some (fairly common) systems the connect() system
call sometimes spuriously fails.
When it is retrying, the system gives a different local port number
every time.
> FATAL: Connecting to serversite.com failed: Connection Refused
This indicates that the sshd on the server is not running.
Tatu
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