scp times out

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:12 -0500, Josef Lowder wrote:
> I last wrote (in part):
> > > This scp worked a year ago when I tried it and I've made
> > > no changes in this system since.
> 
> Then Matt Graham wrote:
> > No changes in a year? What? Don't you keep the system updated?
> 
> That's correct. I have several computers, on some of which I do
> regular updates, but on my "old reliable" I never make changes
> (or updates) because it works more reliably than any of my other
> computers.  I tried doing updates on it a couple of times and each
> time the updates royally messed everything up so bad that it took
> me weeks to get it back to working reliably again.  So that is how
> I keep it, and it never fails.  Can't say the same for the others.
> 
> Change is not always good.
> 
> In this case, I've finally figured out that the scp problem is apparently
> related to the fact that I changed modem/routers and the new Motorola
> router (from Qwest) has apparently created the current problem.
> 
> Today, I found that I had to enable passthrough in order to be able to
> pass files between computers on my network, but in doing that, the
> inet address got messed up and now I can't get that reset to the
> correct inet address.
> 
> I've searched the 'net and tried everything I could find to try.
> One time I did get it working, but then (apparently) the router
> messed it up again. I've tried:
> 
> # dhclient -r
> # dhclient
> # ifdown eth0
> # ifup eth0
> # /etc/init.d/network restart
> 
> ... and a bunch of other things.  After many repeated attempts,
> at one point, ifconfig showed the correct inet address and I was
> able to connect ... but then it self-disconnected somehow and
> I've not been able to get it restored.
> 
> This is just another reason why, once I get a computer system
> to work correctly, I dread changing things.
> 
> If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> Once you get it fixed, don't mess with it.
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I can't quite figure out if this is an indictment on all Linux in
general or the specific distribution that he uses but this is pathetic.

If the distribution you choose to use breaks because you update, you
need to find a different one...period, end of discussion.

Craig


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