too many choices (distros)

[Darrin Chandler]

Alan Dayley wrote:

>For firewalls, if we are moving beyond desktop and server here, I have
>used Smoothwall but now much prefer IPCop.
>  
>

You might consider giving OpenBSD a try for that when you've got a 
chance to play around. It's *very* secure straight out of the box, and 
"pf" does very nice statefull packet filter, NAT, redirection, et al.

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Darrin Chandler
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