[SlugBug] Routing (and BSD'ish ?)help reqd

[Alan Dawson]

All, 
I'm thinking of rebuilding my home firewall / gateway device, and I'm 
considering using one of the BSD's for the task. 
 
Currently its running standard SuSE 7.3 Linux distro, with iptables for 
masquerading / firewalling, Squid webcache as a transparent proxy for 
monitoring / accelerating http traffic,  ospf and zebra as a routing protocol, 
and the lartc wondershaper to manage bandwidth usage. 
 
The reason for the rebuild is I'd like to set up a tunnel to another network an 
the instructions i've got so far go  
 
" We can support IPSEC ESP or AH. Currently we use IPIP with IPSEC to tunnel 
 arbitrary IPv4 traffic in and out of the Deckspace network. We can't support 
 GRE or vanilla IPIP due to ISP filtering constraints. We would prefer not 
 to use a TCP/UDP based protocol, mainly because they suck."  
 
(also the SuSE distro is EOL) 
 
I might want to run nocat ( http://www.nocat.net ) also 
 
Any thought / comments / recommended reading ? 
Linux / OpenBSD / FreeBSD ? 
 
I don't want to have to do any recompiling of kernels or packages if at all 
possible and be able to maintain it securely without a rebuild for a reasonable 
length of time 
 
AED 
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