And OpenBSD can do your DHCP stuff and DNS mail and all of the other things you would expect from a server.

It just seems sad to me that todays Linux newbies don't know distributions that have installs of less than 100MB.  Now distributions default to several GIG of apps most uf us never use.  I just did a minimal install of Solaris 8 last night and it only took 64MB to get a full up and running Solaris box (without X).  The default (without any of the applications we get in Linux) is almost 1 gig.  Check out Monkey Linux, they had a full linux server with X in under 20MB.  Anyway, I am rambling now....

Dusty

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> I would have to recommend OpenBSD on your 800MB HDD (you can easily get it installed in 300MB).  IP Filter is an awesome firewall and OpenBSD is arguable the best OS to run your firewall on (the development team takes extra care to make sure the system is secure).  Netfilter/IPtables is too new and in my opinion too complicated (I have only heard good things about IPtables, but most people say they are going to stay with IPfilter). IPchains is not even an option since it is not stateful.  Plus OpenBSD is very easy to administer.
> 
> for info on OpenBSD:
> http://www.openbsd.org (network install is easy)
> http://www.nomoa.com/bsd (great for getting everything running)
> 
> I love Linux, but for a firewall I can only recommend OpenBSD.
> 
> Dusty