Can't ssh into RasPi 3 with osmc

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Indeed.

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I misunderstood your first post. I thought you were trying to force putty from Ubuntu, which kinda works via wine, but not well

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While this is totally offtopic to this thread I would like to avoid strange statements to remain.
AFAIK there is a native linux port of putty, from the putty manpage:

putty(1)                                 PuTTY tool suite                                putty(1)

NAME
       putty - GUI SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for X

SYNOPSIS
       putty [ options ] [ host ]

DESCRIPTION
       putty  is a graphical SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for X. It is a direct port of the Win‐
       dows SSH client of the same name.
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@tobias, what happens if you try ssh -v osmc@kodi.local (replace kodi.local with the IP of the Pi)

You will gets lots of nice details about what is happening with the -v option, And you can add additional -v options to get even more info, i.e. ssh -v -v osmc@kodi.local

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If I’m reading you correctly this is similar to a problem I had, only with my PI3’s. I’m not sure, but it is whenever I connect through a particular brand of router. My home router is ok, but visit family with this brand of router and I cannot connect without this trick.

The solution in OSMC or Raspbian is the same, at least for me:

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
added:
IPQoS cs0 cs0

Then:
sudo service ssh restart

See
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=138631&hilit=IPQoS+cs0+cs0&start=100

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Amazing!
That actually solved my SSH problem.

Thank you for sharing :slight_smile:

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If that worked, the problem is with your router having a buggy quality of service implementation:

The above settings should only be considered a workaround, and it’s likely that some other types of traffic are affected by your routers bug.

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Seems to be something with the chip used in RPI3. The routers have worked just fine for all connections for about 8 years, but not the RPI3 strangely.

Thus the router thing is my observation:

I have 4 RPI3 now and they work in about 10 or more different locations, presumably with different routers - hotels, homes, and businesses (probably more than10 actually). But at these 3 places where my family signed up with the same sip they sent the same router, and that is the only time I have this problem.

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Which ISP and what router are they supplying? I have seen some weird stuff with Huawei routers.

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As it turns out, they are now on various ISP

In this case it’s Netgear routers involved on each occasion. Two were a DG834GV. Not sure of the other model.

But the fix above has always worked for me first time.

Cheers…

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I was extremely glad I found this thread when having problems with SSH over Wifi on RPi3.
I had tried all sorts of checking of routing and pings without anything showing up to suggest a solution.
After reading this, I tried first the ethernet connection (which worked), and then resetting the keys (which gave no change - but I didn’t expect it to), and finally the IPQoS line added to the sshd_config file (which did give me a working system).
I had had suspicions about the router (to which I changed fairly recently, after even greater problems with my previous router) which is a TP-LINK TD-W9970.
Derek

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An added quirk: I tried Ubuntu-Mate for the Pi on my RPi3, in the same location, and using the same Wifi setup.
SSH connection was immediately available, with no problems, and the sshd_config file looks identical to the unmodified OSMC version (ie no IPQoS mod)
Derek

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dpkg -l | grep openssh-server on both boxes will probably show that Ubuntu Mate is running a newer version of the OpenSSH server which may have workarounds for this issue.

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@sam_nazarko
OSMC: 6.7p1-5+deb8u3
UbMate: 7.2p2-4ubuntu1

A query which has popped up a number of times:
Can I get a version of vi which has the facilities I got used to
eg :r! command to get results from
or have I been missing something?
Derek

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sudo apt-get install vim

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Thanks
Derek