[Leaf-user] LRP vs. Commercial Firewalls ??

[Lance Peterson]

I have on of those fancy-shmancy firewall/routers that does all sorts of cool things like web administration, user login, content filtering by user, keyword lists, trusted and forbidden domains, automatic dhcp, etc....  I've been trying to setup an LRP box to do all that fancy stuff just to see if it was possible.  Then I started wondering...hmmm...what OS were those commercial firewall/routers using like Sonicwall, Linksys, SMC Barracade.  The more I looked at them, the more I started to think it was some implementation of IP_Tables from the 2.4 Kernel to allow stateful inspection.   Anyone know what is in those things?   Also, will I be able to do web administration, content filtering or keyword filtering, stateful inspection, as well as setup trusted and/or forbidden domains under LRP?  I like the idea of being able to out-do my fancy-shmancy commercial firewall with an open source OS.  Especially if I can eventually dump it to an SBC and replace the comercial firewall/router all together!  That's my goal anyway.   I perceive a long, hard road ahead - any help would be appreciated.  I'm already going blind from reading HOWTO's.   Regards, Lance Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]