Hello everyone, in order to resolve another issue with my Pi 2 with OSMC installed not being able to detect UPnP servers I have to SSH into my pi as there is no other way to access a console, but I can’t. I have dhcp running on my Pi 2 with osmc and it assigns it an IP of (don’t want to use my actual IP for obvious reasons so I’m going to substitute a fake one) 176.166.1.80. The Pi 2 with this IP is connected to the internet and is running an SSH server however I cannot SSH into it as either PuTTy on windows or console on linus just times out if I try. Therefore in order to ensure everything was working properly I tried just pinging the IP my Pi 2 has, and that’s where I became very confused. I cannot even ping the my Pi 2 (I have ensured I am pinging the correct IP address) and every single time no matter what computer I use to try to ping it, the packets time out. I am very confused as to why I cannot even ping my Pi 2 and any help regarding the matter would be great.
Thanks, The_Snowman
Hi The_Snowman,
not 100% sure what you are trying to achieve here, but in a “standard” setup OSMC would be conencted to the LAN and not the Internet. Assuming that you have a valid reason to connect OSMC directly to the Internet you would need to do some more troubleshooting as your issue could be coming from several sources including your ISP blocking ICMP and SSH.
Suggest you connect a usb keyboard to the PI and then go to CLI to do some test e.g. can you ping the gateway, is default route set, …
Cheers
Fred
Hi Fred thanks for the response, to clarify I am using OSMC connected to my local network via wireless. I know I can run SSH as the two other raspberry pi’s I have in my house (one is on raspbian, one is on raspbmc) which are both also on wifi can be sshed into easily (and pinged). I am less concerned about my inability to connect via SSH and more concerned about my inability to ping the IP provided to my Pi 2 with OSMC by dhcp. Do you have any thoughts on why I am not be able to ping my Pi 2 with OSMC? Also I may try installing and configuring a static IP in order to try to resolve the issue.
Thanks, The_Snowman
Hi The_Snowman,
I just assumed you are directly connecting it to the internet as the “fake” IP Address you gave is a public IP. But form your response I understand you have all devices on the LAN and you know what you do.
So unfortunately I do not have further advice what could be wrong as ICMP and SSH on OSMC should work without issue. So the only advice I can give check IP address and other information on the network tab, if all is ok my suggestion would be to do a quick reinstall just to ensure nothing went wrong on your installation.
Cheers
Fred
what are the first 3 segments of the ip address?
Haha no I for the “fake” IP I literally just typed in completely random numbers. I’m going to try to do a clean install with a static IP today thanks for the help.
Funny enough you “faked” a valid pulic IP from a ISP in France 
Your router assigns private NAT IPv4 via DHCP. They are not visible to the world even if you put them here…
S
I feel like I should have known that but I didn’t, thanks!