[Gloucs] Lan configuration

Mick Brooks gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jan 31 10:38:06 2003


On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:10:20AM +0000, Sean Keane wrote:
> Some time around Thursday 30 January 2003 20:38, David slipped on a keyboard 
> and came up with:
> 
> >   As I have mentioned to Guy and others, I have been having problems
> > setting up a simple connection share between two Mandrake boxes.  The
> > hardware is recognised no problem, and both boxes can ping each other.
> > If I then run SSH 192.168.1.252 I get :*Port22 Network unreachable.*
> >  That is as far as it goes though and as a very simple newbie, I have
> > run out of ideas.
> >
> >  Ping shows the following  :
> >  PING 192.168.1.252 (192.168.1.252) from 192.168.1.253 : 56(84) bytes of
> > data.
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.252: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.662 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.252: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.401 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.252: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.406 ms
> >
> Do you by any chance have any firewalls running on either of the boxes in 
> question which might be blocking/dropping etc port 22?

And if not, what about tcpwrappers? Do /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny on
the server block SSH connections?

-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks@physics.ox.ac.uk