You say developed, was this not an issue before? It would be best to attempt to replicate from another OS. If you are fancy enough to have an Android device, androvnc and connectbot (ssh client) are free to download and test with.
Ian On Saturday 10 December 2011 19:06:24 Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > > > My 64-bit lucid box has developed a rather irritating fault which my lack > of knowledge can't fix. While the ethernet side of things looks solid - > I'm getting random disconnections when I'm vnc'd or ssh'd into it. Also > (again periodically and without apparent reason) it refuses to let me in > either through vnc or ssh. > > > > I've installed wireshark and looked in /var/log but such information as is > in either of these is all Greek to me! FWIW the client is always a > Windows 7 machine. Here's what I've checked: > > * Firestarter - nothing obvious and besides which - with no change to the > settings sometimes it lets me in, sometimes not - ditto establishing a new > connection. > > * hosts.equiv, hosts.allow > > > > What I've not checked: > > * network cable - but there are no obvious dropouts in a terminal pinging > the router with the -t option > > * using a different client which may be Windows or something else. > > > > Anybody know is this is a known issue? > > > > Cheers > > Rob -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------