Gentoo as a firewall machine.

[gilesjuk]

I really want a 2.4 based firewall machine, but I want it to be easily manageable (web interface preferred). Fine you say, there's oodles of firewall distros out there. Trouble is i'm using a USB Speedtouch which hardly any support. I built an OpenBSD firewall but found it was hard to manage if you for example needed to quickly open up a port.

I've noticed the guide on installing the speedtouch with Gentoo and it looks simple enough, just wondering if there are any guides on setting up a Gentoo firewall?

It's a bit tricky to create a secure firewall when you have something like portage active, not to mention all the scripting and development tools. So a setup which has these on a seperate partition with symlinks seems to be the answer.

Any ideas, links etc..?

[pjp]

There are quite a few threads discussing Gentoo as a firewall.
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[gilesjuk]