Router specific distro

[Ripley]

Now I many of you will grimace at the mere thought of this question (ie... which distro) but bare with me if you will.

I have a second system now, running as a nat/game/print server (currently on Win98 with Winroute Lite) and I'm looking at turning it over to Linux.

I'm tempted to try both Slack and LFS (my favorite) but having only medium experience with Linux I thought I'd pop the question to people.

One of those "Distro on a floppy" setups won't do (AFAIK) because of the need for a game server sometimes (ie... got to have a hard-drive), although the security side of a router specific floppy distro would be good.

So, any thoughts people. What distro would be a good match? Not just what distro, but why? It is for very specific needs.

LFS has the jump at the moment (absolutely nothing other than what I need), its just that LFS happens to be time consuming to set up.

[manual_overide]

OpenBSD. Easy to set up, Secure by default, doesn't install lots of extra crap. A base install with no X, and the compiler tools and the documentation weighs in a just a couple hundred meg. Takes maybe half an hour to 45 min to ftp install over a cable modem. It does IPforwarding and NAT very well, plus, the howtos at www.openbsd.org (http://www.openbsd.org) tell you exactly how to set it up.

[ddep]

i am using a clark connect router www.clarkconnect.org. (http://www.clarkconnect.org.) it's red hat 7.0 based very easy to install and provides many other uses. you can use an old 386 puter for a dedicated router and save some hardware from the scrap yard.
i currently have a win95,2xwin98,win2k,wint4
and a storm linux machines routed thru it.
try it. you'll like it :)