Hi, Here is some more info after little investigation :) Message i get is: "Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 1026" SSH makes connection but port isn't opened and in server logs i see: IPP-Linux:~# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 18722 Oct 19 13:37:20 IPP-Linux sshd[18722]: error: bind: Address already in use Oct 19 13:37:20 IPP-Linux sshd[18722]: error: channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 1026 IPP-Linux:~# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 18737 Oct 19 13:37:47 IPP-Linux sshd[18737]: error: bind: Address already in use Oct 19 13:37:47 IPP-Linux sshd[18737]: error: channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 1026 But i closed the previous console with ssh listening to that port, and is no ssh process on client when i want to connect again on the same port. So how come it still says that port is in use on server? This happens in only 2% of the cases, very rare, i change nothing in the way i connect or close the client, but somehow it seems that port still hangs on server after closing ssh console ... or at least that's what sshd says because with "netstat -an" i don't see that port busy Thank you Rabbi for that command, next time when it happens i'll use it :) Thanks, Adriana
