How to fix 'no route to host' problem

[Stephen Partington]

DHCP IP Address reservation or Assignments in your router will be a bit odd
looking in most home routers, but once you find it very simple. This will
still vary based on device but an example can be found here.
https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=135673

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:21 PM Joe Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> I still need help to solve this problem:
>
> I recently wrote this:
> > For many months, I have been using rsync to copy files
> > from one of my computers to two others, and it has worked flawlessly. But
> > today, it quit working and I cannot figure out why and how to correct the
> > problem. Below is the error message I now see:
> >
> > ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: No route to host
> > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> > rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.0]
> >
> > What do I need to do to correct this problem?
>
> One reply said, "Can you ping it?"
>
> Yes, I can, ping the device ip address. Also did these 2 commands:
> d: arp -an
> ? (192.168.0.19) at c4:1c:ff:30:c5:9c [ether] on wlan0
> ? (192.168.0.7) at 10:0b:a9:9a:99:a8 [ether] on wlan0
> ? (192.168.0.1) at 52:b9:e5:c9:b9:cc [ether] on wlan0
> d: ip neighbor
> 192.168.0.19 dev wlan0 lladdr c4:1c:ff:30:c5:9c REACHABLE
> 192.168.0.7 dev wlan0 lladdr 10:0b:a9:9a:99:a8 STALE
> 192.168.0.1 dev wlan0 lladdr 52:b9:e5:c9:b9:cc DELAY
>
> But I don't know what to do with the results.
>
> Another reply suggested:
> > So: Go to the target machine and find out what its
> > IP and MAC are--"/sbin/ifconfig" from the command line
> > will show that info. Then set up your router such that
> > it will always give out 192.168.0.4 to that MAC.
>
> But I don't know how to set my router so that it will
> always give out 192.168.0.4 to that MAC.
>
>
>
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