I was, and still am encountering an intermittent problem when trying to log onto my home Ubuntu server, via SSH or FIleZilla, using its LAN address. Sometimes that fails. So what I have to do is one of the following two things:
- Log onto the server via its WAN address, which always works, and ping something else on my LAN
- Run from any browser a Perl script that's on my server
After using either of the above methods I can log on to my server via its LAN address.
I tried looking at it from the view that there might be conflicting IP addresses. So I've double checked that nothing else has that address, plus I gave the Ubuntu server a reserved IP address that is way above anything else on my LAN. As well, I do only have one router.
Still no permanent fix.
I can't find the link, but remember reading that the WiFi power saving mode can be a causing factor here.
The farthest I've gone here is running:
sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf
so that the file reads:
[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2
Yet that does not fixed this intermittent error.
There are way too few items on my LAN, to my knowledge, and using nmap, that I do believe it could be the power saving mode.
Does anyone have any knowledge in this area?
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