[CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home server

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
> Sent: den 29 juni 2015 08:11
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home
> server
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Max Pyziur
> > Sent: den 28 juni 2015 20:50
> > To: centos at centos.org
> > Subject: [CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home
> > server
> >
> > I'm rebuilding a machine to function as a gateway/router to Verizon DSL.
> 
> May I ask why you don't just use a made-for-the-purpose-distro like
> Smoothwall to do this?
> I takes (almost) all of the pain out of configuring stuff, and is quite
secure due
> to not having as much "junk" pre-installed as CentOS 6?

Please note: I'm not criticizing, just curious about the argument behind
using a regular OS to do firewall-stuff.

-- 
//Sorin