Thanks Jason and Tin Le,
I now have ssh working fine by using ports higher than 1024 (I set
"UsePrivilegedPort no" in /etc/ssh/ssh_config). Thanks for your advice :).
Consider this problem solved. (Actually, the solution can be found on the FAQ
page at OpenSSH.com... duh!)
Olof
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> Try using adding the -P option. This use an originating port higher than
> 1024. Some firewalls block originating ports below that.
>
> Tin Le
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>
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Olof Liungman wrote:
>
> > 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
