David Katz wrote:
Thanks, I do understand that there is an internal and an external address. I want to force my workstation to have the internal address 192.168.1.140 so that my router will forward port 22 to the right machine - it's set up to do that so that my windows stuff works. Can I make Fedora assign a specific internal address? Because interally I'm not always at 192.168.1.2; it seems to depend on which machine logs in first.
Is it conceivable that your problem has nothing to do with IP addresses, and is because of a bad (eg old) entry in ~/.ssh/known_hosts ?