Also you mentioned networking problems with the address that you are using in for Openssh can you ping the box?  try pinging the host box from client using ping -c4 &lt;host ip address&gt;  check for packet loss.  If you are losing packets and/or the host cannot be reached than you have a network problem other than just ssh and you will need to solve this first.<br clear="all">

<br>-- <br>James<br><br><br>