Re: ssh between computers on my home network

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 03 April 2011 16:52:14 Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:35:08 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 April 2011 16:15:05 Camaleón wrote:
> >> Is the "ping" success if you run it as root?
> >
> > No!  Herewith 1 specimen:
> >
> > Tux:/home/lisi# ping 192.168.0.3
>
> Try to ping machine .33 (ping -c 3 192.168.0.33)

Thanks for persevering, Camaleón.

machine .33 would be the third  DHCP number allocated by the router.  It does 
not currently exist.  I could find three machines to connect by DHCP, if the 
third would make a difference of some kind!
>
> And also the reverse, from "Dozy" try to ping "Tux" (ping -c 3
> 192.168.0.2).

Wow!  Could you explain how you knew that?  I might recognise it myself 
another time!!
   
peter@Dozy:~$ ping 192.168.0.2
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.95 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.27 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.224 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.27 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.221 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.164 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.28 ms
^C
--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.164/1.056/2.951/0.920 ms
peter@Dozy:~$   

To repeat myself!  Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Lisi