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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