My grandmother-in-law, not known as a nice woman, became downright
chipper upon receipt of a small box of Godiva truffles. My wife thinks
it would work well on girlfriends' mothers as well. Some bribes are
well worth the expense. :)

-A

--- Rob Wultsch <robert.wultsch@asu.edu> wrote:
> I have looked around the net a bit and can not figure what I do and
> do 
> not need to know.
> 
> I am building a  desktop/ firewall for my girlfriend that has cox. As
> 
> her mother hates me I will not have access to the cable modem before
> I 
> drop off the computer, and will not have a ton of time to configure
> the 
> computer before getting something thrown at me. The computer that I
> am 
> giving away will be protecting the rest of the net from the virus
> ridden 
> piece of s* that my girlfriend's mom will not let me fix.All I know 
> about the cable modem is that it is not a router and that it has
> cat-5 
> out. I have no experiece with such things so I am hoping that you
> could 
> tell me of the ramifications *or point me to a guide*.
> 
> Should I do anything special when I install debian? (should I tell it
> a 
> bs static ip or what?)
> Will I need to find drivers?
> How much time should I assume that I will need to invest to get
> firewall 
> builder setup?
> 
> Thanks for any help possible.
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