ssh from Suse to Fedora often failed

[pom]

Hi,

I am not sure why sometime ssh failed to connect from my old Suse at home (Linux POMDESKTOP 2.6.18.2-34-default #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 11:46:27 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) to my Fedora core 14 at work.

I used the command

"ssh -X -l login_name IP_of_fedora"

Sometime it connected very fast but most of the time error with 'connection time out'
Also ping remote desktop often failed.

Can someone help me with this problem so I can get reliable connection every time.

Both desktops has been rebooted several times and both have internet access.

thanks
Pom

[reed9]

You can try increasing the length of time before a timeout.

How to avoid SSH timeouts

[pom]

Thanks for the hint.

Do I need to reboot the desktop after adding those two lines in ssh_config file?

thanks

[reed9]

If you edit it server side, you'll need to restart ssh, but you don't have to reboot the whole thing.