It responds initially normally and when it asks for password, it just blinks and doesn’t allow any letters to be entered. What might I try? While I’m at it what is the ssh entry to show how my https-dns-proxy is sent up? Thanks
Sounds like an ssh client issue. What client are you using?
Linux if that’s what you referring to. I don’t see client listed anywhere in system.
What flavor of linux?
Presumably you're just opening a terminal and typing ssh root@<ip_address>, correct?
Some additional questions:
- How is the linux system connected to the OpenWrt router?
- Does the linux machine have any other network connections (i.e. wifi, ethernet, a second ethernet port, etc.)?
- Are there any other routers/APs/managed switches in your network?
- Do you have multiple subnets/VLANs/SSIDs (such as a guest network)?
- What is the address of your router?
- What is the IP address of your linux box?
And finally, can you show us the output of the terminal window?
ssh root@192.168.1.1
root@192.168.1.1's password:
Modem>ethernet>router>ethernet>2computers No wifi/no guests. Both computers are never on at the same time. I was able to access ssh for a few outputs and went through the whole first time screen and the next day it stopped responding. I believe everything else is working.
Can you try ssh from the other computer?
I don’t have OpenWrt on that computer or does that matter?
I'm confused... you said the first computer was running Linux (although you didn't specific what Linux -- such as Ubuntu, Debian, etc.).
OpenWrt doesn't need to be on the computer to be able to ssh into your OpenWrt router (and in fact, OpenWrt is not a general purpose OS).
What is required, though, is a terminal/ssh client application such that you can ssh into the OpenWrt router.
What specific Linux version is on the first computer? And what OS is on the second?
Linux mint on both. Identical setup.
Try the other one to see if it helps.
Do you have any other computers/OS's available to use for testing? We have seen odd issues with Mint that don't present with other OS's.
Other computer “Port:22 Network unreachable”. During setup you had me get into ssh and it was working at that time. No other computers.
Did the 2nd computer get an ip address? What was it?
What about the ip of the first one?
And do these computer have the vpn client installed?
The copy of the 1st ip for this compter is above. I tried the exact same 192.168.1.1 on the 2nd computer. I thought the router ip was constant. Where do I check if 2nd computer got an extra ip?
Wait…
This is the address of the computer????
I “ssh root@192.168.1.1” on both computers.
What is the address of the computers themselves?
They are different but both in the 192.168 range. I thought this was information I was to redact?
It is safe to share rfc1918 addresses.
What about the vpn - is that installed on these computers?
192.168.1.158 and 192.168.1.238 Vpn is on both computers and everything is working fine on both. I almost never use ssh, was just going to copy some info to post for another question.
We have told you multiple times that:
a) the VPNs must be disabled if you want to reach your routers
b) you should not be using VPNs on those devices because you've got the VPN configured on your router (assuming the previous thread was successful and nothing changed).
We have also advised you to not only disable the VPNs, but actually uninstall them from your computers to avoid this specific problem.