Maybe you can take a look at http://www.sentryfirewall.com, its based on slackware and is dedicated for firewalling, It has other patches that you can use in your box.
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:24, Steve Melo wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm looking to build a system that will be a dedicated firewall > machine. > I would like this installation to be secure from the ground up and was > hoping that someone could recommend a customized kernel package > built specifically for firewalling. The reason I'm asking is because > just > recently I tried using the ulog feature only to find that it is not > supported > by my kernel. So I figured if I'm going to build a new kernel, what > other > enhancements can I make? > > I don't know much about kernel patches either so excuse me if this is > a > dumb question: Are there any patches that would give me additional > functionality related to firewalling? > > > Thank you all, > > steve

