Telnet / SSH connection timeout on LAN

[Marco Atzeri]

On 7/6/2015 2:35 AM, Spinfusion wrote:
> My goal:
> To set up rsync over SSH, to sync my org-mode GTD files, activated every
> time my laptop or pc goes idle, as described by Gina Trapani.
>
> Network hardware architecture:
> Windows 7 laptop and desktop, connected directly by cat 5e ethernet cable.
> Also both connected via wifi to the same router.
>
> Network functionality:
> Windows firewalls currently disabled
> Windows shared folders works for directory browsing and editing
> Synctoy worked to sync drives, although it spewed a lot of errors and took a
> long time and many retries to sync ~250 gb. Did it over the ethernet cable
> because wifi was too slow.

Are you sure it was over the cable ?
A lot of errors means a broken cable or a weak wifi.

> Cygwin functionality:
> ping works.
> telnet error: connection timed out
> ssh error: connection timed out
> ssh connection to localhost - works

It seems a routing table problem, not a cygwin issue.

see windows command
  route /help




> Background and guesses:
>
> I've read and tried many fixes with no luck, to the best of my limited
> understanding.
>
> I doubt network names are configured correctly; I'm out of my depth there.
> Pinging works with fixed IP addresses assigned for the ethernet connection.
>
> I don't know what I'm doing and would appreciate some guidance. Cheers.

This can give you some understanding
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/320978-static-routes-create-remove.html

Regards
Marco


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