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Hope that helps.

As far as firewall, I have made a conscious effort to NOT comment of existing firewalls, as I created my own. I took an old P120, installed a minimal distro on it (Can't remember it offhand), and manually edited the ipchains file to drop all connections coming in that I did not specifically request.

Nobody ever gets in, and I can get out. It took me about 4-5 lines of code.

As far as a lightweight distro, try Puppy Linux. It contains a fairly decent set of software, and it's a popular distro.

I just remembered--I've heard pretty good things about Devil Linux--a distro made for firewalls and routers. I have had no experience with it, so I don't know how it works, I would doubt that it will work exactly like you are used to, though.

My thanks, mate. I always appreciate the wealth of knowledge fellow FReepers helpfully provide for others who are interested in such information. Especially for individuals such as I who candidly admit to being relative 'newbies' on such a topic and at the beginning side of the bell-curve of such information and looking to increase their knowledge of same. Preferably without wading through pages and pages of FUD or outright propaganda for a pet peeve in leiu of helpful information, or deliberately unrelated replies.

Again, thanks and feel free to send more info that might be relevant anytime you come across it.

Cheers!