---- Paul Mooring <
drpppr242@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I see where you're coming from on that but for some reason (probably
> because I don't really know what I'm talking about) running a specialty
> distro like IPCop with a web interface and potentially outdated packages
> just seems like it would open the door for all sorts of security issues
> to me, the same reason I don't like to use LFS, it's hard to stay on
> updates. Anybody who understands the security aspects better than I do
> have an opinion on the security implications of running IPCop, pfsense,
> ect. vs making your own router from Debian, Gentoo, ect?
I have been running IPCop for as I said before more than 5 years. They do update it whenever a security problem uncovered. Doing the updates is very very easy. You can subscribe to their announcement mailing list so that when a new one does come out, you update your ipcop setup.