Willy Lee wrote: > > Hello debian-user, > > I have a box I've set up at work as a CVS server, to accept CVS and > SSH connections, mostly from Windows boxes on an internal network. > Well, I installed Debian 2.2 stable on it and set it up to use DHCP to > get it's IP, got CVS and SSH working, everything was fine. > > However, I was told to change it to use a static IP. I mucked with > /etc/network/interfaces to use a static IP, may have done some other > tweaking of mostly unrelated stuff, and then I noticed that, whereas > before I could have a SSH session open from my Windows machine (putty) > all day, now I get periodically kicked off ("connection has been reset > by peer"-type messages), or it takes several tries to get a > connection. And our CVS access also has the same kind of problem > ("connection refused by host" -type messages), have to try repeatedly > for over a minute sometimes. This is very annoying, to say the least.
Sounds like and IP conflict. - Dan White