I'm building a box that will act as a firewall \ transparent proxy (squid) for roughly 500 clients. I plan to use Reiserfs on the cache partitions and would like to use a 2.4.X kernel with it's stateful firewall. For servers, I usually use Debian but I'm not sure about running potato w\ a 2.4 kernel on a production server. I know that Adrian Bunk has developed the packages (http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html) to run the new kernel but also warns that it may not be stable. Is anyone running a 2.4 kernel on a Debian (potato) box in production? Any suggestions from people who have configured a linux firewall\proxy would be appreciated as well ;-) Jon Erickson