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"G.W. Haywood" <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk> 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?