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Tom helped me move the server - ash.datamantic.com - to the data center. I took the old server out, put in the new one, fired it up and everything seemed to be okay. I had put in the new network configuration back at headquarters. But then I tried to SSH into tulip (the current server located in a different data center,) and it wouldn't recognize my password. Weird. ifconfig seemed to indicate that ethernet was up and connected. And getting a response from tulip (even a rejection) further made me believe that things were working. But I couldn't account for the inability to log in.
But luckily (I am learning) I didn't waste tons of time trying to figure out what was wrong. I say luckily because, as I suspected, everything really was fine. I'm back home now I can ssh into ash with no problem. So everything seems to be working. I'll have to try to figure out the weirdness about not being able to get a secure shell going out though, but it's not a big deal at the moment.
So I'm a little behind schedule, but at least it has finally happened.