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> 2.  Next week I am geting a cable modem at home.  (Still stuck with dial 
> up at work for another 2 months..)
> is thare anything that I should be warey of?  Currently I am using diald 
> to handel the connection, but when the cable modem comes, it will be 24/7 
> with DHCP.   I built both Linux systems to be Masw boxes, and since 
> puting RH 4.2 on them (upgrading from Slackware 96)  I have not really 
> had to mess with them at all, so I am a bit rusty.

Please tell me you have been keeping up with security patchs from rh as
redhat 4.2 has sooooo many root overflow (local and remote) and with a
cable modem you can expect a visit from the kiddies come to play.

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