Networking problems with aux..

[Chuq Von Rospach]

> If I run aux off the external drive, I cannot get access to the network.
> I spent the last day trying to reconfigure aux on this drive so that I 
> might get access to my network, but alas, no go.
> 
> All the necessary files and services seem to be operational, but when I
> attempt "remsh <other host>", I get the following message:
> 
> 	Network is unreachable.

First thing to do is make sure you have networking configured into the
kernel. You also need to verify that the internet numbers and hostname are
set up properly. Easiest way to do this is to delete the /etc/HOSTNAME and
/etc/NETADDRS files, then,  run "newunix bnet" (or "newunix bnet nfs") and
answer the questions. When done, reboot and with luck you'll be on the
network.

The gotcha is that the system looks at NETADDRS instead of /etc/hosts for
configuration data on the machine. Weird, and unless you know that you can
play around with /etc/hosts and other configuration stuff forever and it'll
ignore you.

> Could I simply run aux off my internal drive and then mount the partitions
> of the external drive in order to gain acces to those aux files.

That'd be another workaround, but getting the network up for real is a
better answer. If the other drive is set up correctly, try copying
/etc/hosts, /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/NETADDRS from the working disk and
reboot. If all it is is a mis-configured NETADDRS (my guess) that's a quick
fix.

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