Can't get more than one ssh login at a time

I seem to have hit one of those "No way through" problems again.
I have a server on campus to which I have two access paths, that
superficially seem to be almost identical. One is from a computer
on the same subnet, and from that I can log in via ssh in separate
terminal windows as many times at once as I want.

The other is via a (static IP) DSL connection from home. Here I can
only log in once, and get "Connection refused" if I try to do it
a second time (or even if I log out amd try again within a few minutes).

The two satellite machines are pretty much identical, running the same
ssh. As I understand it, DSL should impose no restrictions, and I can't
see anything in sshd_config that might be causing it. I'd appreciate
any insight.

Further, I can't seem to persuade sshd to give me any debug messages
(in /var/log/messages). I've set Loglevel in sshd_config to DEBUG,
and added "auth.*" to the end of the '/var/log/messages' line in syslog.conf.
I still get nothing but the usual login and logout messages in the log file.
What am I missing? How can I get it to tell me *why* it is rejecting
logins?

TIA
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:43:20 -0700, Pete wrote:

> I have a server on campus to which I have two access paths, that
> superficially seem to be almost identical. One is from a computer on
> the same subnet, and from that I can log in via ssh in separate terminal
> windows as many times at once as I want.
>
> The other is via a (static IP) DSL connection from home. Here I can
> only log in once, and get "Connection refused" if I try to do it a
> second time (or even if I log out amd try again within a few minutes).

Have you asked your network administrator if there are connection limits
for external IP addresses set on the campus firewall (eg. iptables
connlimit/iplimit)?



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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Snowbat <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> The other is via a (static IP) DSL connection from home. Here I can
>> only log in once, and get "Connection refused" if I try to do it a
>> second time (or even if I log out amd try again within a few minutes).
>
>Have you asked your network administrator if there are connection limits
>for external IP addresses set on the campus firewall (eg. iptables
>connlimit/iplimit)?
>
Hmm. A possibility I guess (though I would have no idea why...)
I'll ask tomorrow. Thanks.
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In article <f5ndko$uts$(E-Mail Removed)>,
I wrote:
>
>I seem to have hit one of those "No way through" problems again.
>I have a server on campus to which I have two access paths, that
>superficially seem to be almost identical. One is from a computer
>on the same subnet, and from that I can log in via ssh in separate
>terminal windows as many times at once as I want.
>
>The other is via a (static IP) DSL connection from home. Here I can
>only log in once, and get "Connection refused" if I try to do it
>a second time (or even if I log out amd try again within a few minutes).
>
>The two satellite machines are pretty much identical, running the same
>ssh.
>
Ehh...my bad... The two ssh's were *not* the same! I thought I'd
checked, but the one on my home box was an older (1.2.26) version.
Replaced it with OpenSSH and things are *much* better!

Sorry 'bout that.
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