On Mon, June 29, 2015 02:14, Sorin Srbu wrote: OS 6?
Please note: I'm not criticizing, just curious about the argument behind using a regular OS to do firewall-stuff.
Maintenance.
A consistent set of expectations does wonders for debugging odd-ball occurrences. Why learn the idiosyncrasies of two distros when one suffices? Just start with a minimal CentOS install on your router/gateway and add only the packages that you know that you need. Any critical omission will evidence itself in short order and can be added then; or the source of the need removed as circumstance warrants.