ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/20/2012 12:38 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On the telnet cygwin 22, I am getting Connection refused. And I just verified again
> that a ping works. 

The "telnet" operation is at the application layer.  Connection refused is telling
you that the "sshd" equivalent on the cygwin system isn't running.  If it were a
firewall issue on the cygwin side you'd either get "no route to host" indication or
the telnet operation would appear to hang....  The difference would be in how the
port was being blocked/filtered on the cygwin side.

The "ping" operation is at the network layer and uses ICMP packets.  This is a
general statement for outside of your network...but I just want to mention that many
times ping will *not* work but the service will since quite a few ISPs and systems
block ICMP packets these days..

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