On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:09:25 -0500
Mike Burrows <testermike@???> wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> I can ssh into my debian machine on port 22 (with that port forwarded
> on my router) using
> 
> ssh testermike@???
> 
> However, when i change the port to 2222 (changing the router of
> course) and repeat using
> 
> ssh -p 2222 testermike@???
> 
> I get an error that the connection was reset by peer and I cannot ssh
> in.
> 
> What am I not doing please?
what you should _not_  have done is tell the world you have changed the
port number to 2222 ;-(
I changed the port I ssh into on my VPS and put a couple of lines into 
~/.ssh/config as below
Host IP address
        Port xxxx 
Host Domain Name
        Port xxxx
that saves the need to use the '-p port' flag to ssh.
Did you restart sshd on the remote machine?
-- 
John Lewis
using Debian sid