On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:55:16 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
On Wed 20 Jul 2011 at 14:51:45 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
Yep, as Walter suggested, this can be a problem with DHCP that has
given another IP to the laptop. If you have only two machines in
the LAN, give them static IPs so you don't have to depend on your
router's DHCP eccentricities :-)
But the IP should show up in ifconfig, no? And that did not change
after the failure...
The advice is still not unsound though. It will take DHCP out of
consideration.
Is the problem one which appears after being able to ssh to the laptop
successfully at some earlier time, like 5 minutes ago? What happens
with ping/traceroute/ssh/telnet/route/arp from desktop to laptop and
vice versa? Is there wireless on either machine? Does taking down the
firewall on the router make any difference?
Another line of thought: being a laptop, does it go into standby or
hibernation? Debian doesn't have a great record for waking up the
machine properly afterwards.
Not without first doing some research using Ubuntu...