>> I use IPCOP on all my border routers at my client sites ... with the >> openvpn plugin. CentOS can certainly also be a router if you set it up >> that way, but I normally use IPCOP. >> >> I don't think there are many tools that are going to make management as >> easy as it is on IPcop ... though, there has not been much website >> activity there lately. > There is a new patch in beta right now. > 1.4.11 I think. > I guess a firewall has so little software on it that security updates just > seem to be farther apart. Less exposure = less vulnerability. > I mentioned Clarkconnect as an alternative to trying to use CentOS since it is > based from CentOS 4. personally i really like www.smoothwall.org as its super easy to setup and performs well. Its also a really active project.