Is there a firewall in between the two boxes?? Do you have any firewall
rules on the mandrake box that would prevent the connection through a
privileged port?? ipchains -L
Maybe try using an unpriveleged port, -P. Just a thought.
Jason
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to get back to an earlier posting of mine (still unresolved).
>
> I'm having problems with OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 on a PC laptop running
> Linux Mandrake
> 7.0-2 with an ADSL connection using Roaring Penguin's PPPoE. I'm trying to
> connect to a server (Sun Solaris 2.6) also running OpenSSH 2.3.0p1. I can
> connect to the server from another Sun box using another older
> version of ssh
> (using only ssh1) as well as from a Win98 PC using F-Secure SSH2.
> In the latter
> case public key authentication does not seem to work, but I get
> through using
> password authentication (this is being discussed on another thread...).
>
> On the Mandrake box, however, the following happens (with the
> sensitive info
> replaced by dummy arguments, as I'm a bit paranoid ;):
>
> $ ssh -v -l remote_user remote_ssh_server.remote_domain
> SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
> Compiled with SSL (0x0090600f).
> debug: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug: Seeding random number generator
> debug: ssh_connect: getuid 501 geteuid 0 anon 0
> debug: Connecting to remote_ssh_server.remote_domain
> [AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD] port 22.
> debug: Seeding random number generator
> debug: Allocated local port 875.
>
> And that's it :(! ssh just sits there, without doing anything. I
> have to kill
> the process or use Ctrl-C to get the prompt back. After a looong time the
> connection times out and it tries to connect again, without
> succeeding. I can
> ping and ftp the server in question without problems. The strange
> thing is that
> there is NOTHING in the server's logs(?).
>
> I first installed using Mandrake 7.0 rpms, then uninstalled everything and
> installed both OpenSSL 0.96 and OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 directly from
> tthe tarballs.
> Configuring, make:ing and installing went without a hitch.
>
> Can anyone help? Where should I start? I'm stumped :(. Is there
> something I may
> have forgotten while installing?
>
> Olof
>
