Linux router software recommendation?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> writes:

> The idea was that enough of the kernel would still be running to handle 
> the iptables rules, but there would be no OS underneath for anyone to try 
> to break into.

Unfortunately this doesn't work when you want your firewall to also be
an IPsec endpoint.  You need the IPsec processes to actually run (in
userspace) -- so you have to have a running OS.

-derek
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