"G.W. Haywood" <ged@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I'm setting up a gentoo linux machine who's sole purpose is to get >> traffic coming to a NETGEAR router upstream [snip] > > Why not install a purpose-made firewall distro, and maybe some addons? > You'll get logs, a GUI, graphs, all kinds of fun stuff. I'm not sure what you are talking about there. Do you mean something like the `Soekris' board running openbsd? Can you name a few of these purpose built distros? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html