Re: ssh: no route to host

[Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com>]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router
> that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router.
> 
> Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I
> get:
> 
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.194 port 22: No route to host
> 
> The way I get aound that is to power off the laptop and reboot it
> 
> That seems a dumb way to do it.
> 
> How is that resolved without rebooting?

Are you using DHCP? Next time it happens, go to the laptop and look at 
what ifconfig has to say before you reboot it.