Johannes Wiedersich <johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig" > > "ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem.
Still needing your help: following the suggestion come from the list, I edited /etc/network/interfaces on the first pc as follows: auto eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 , and on the second the same but with `192.168.0.2' in place of `192.168.0.1'. Then I did `/etc/init.d/networking restart' on both, and `ifconfig' on the first gives: # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:219 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:7884 (7.6 KiB) , and on the second # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:8b:a2:6b:02 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::223:8bff:fea2:6b02/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:8928 (8.7 KiB) , that look ok. The `ping' command from first machine: $ ping 192.168.0.2 PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4000ms , and analogously from second. ssh from first pc gives: # ssh -vvv 192.168.0.2 OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 192.168.0.2 [192.168.0.2] port 22. , and analogously from second. But rsync does not seem to work between the two. From first pc: $ rsync -vr --delete test1 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo , but nothing happens. Further suggestions appreciated. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org