scp is giving timeout errors although ssh works fine

Question

I have a Digital Ocean droplet that I can ssh into just fine. This is how I work on the server. The other day I went to use scp and was given the following error;

scp -r host@my_ip:/path/to/file .
ssh: connect to host my_ip port 22: Connection timed out

Previously it worked with out a problem. I have changed the ports in ssh_config and restarted the deamon on both the local and remote machines. I have added firewall rules to the local machine and changed them when I changed the ports ssh is to use.

I still get the same error message. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

When you ssh into the box, do you privide a non-standard port via `-p XXX` ? If yes, you need to add that when scp'ing, try adding `-P XXX` to your scp command. — Oliver, Feb 16 '15 at 22:33

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '17 at 08:46

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The problem is MTU related try setting your client's network card mtu smaller for example

ifconfig enp10s0 mtu 1000 (linux)

answered Sep 29 '17 at 08:46

mort

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after setting mtu for 1000 does it solved the problem? scp timeout can be due to other reasons? – danglingpointer Sep 29 '17 at 09:01

scp is giving timeout errors although ssh works fine

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