[PLUG] Replacement for Mandrake Single Network Firewall?

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

I've been using Mandrake SNF for about 2 1/2 years.  
The distro's intended functions are as a dial-on-demand gateway 
for a LAN (i.e. doing NAT) and a firewall.  I have expanded that to 
acting as a print server and file server.

Generally, I've been very pleased, but Mandrake stopped providing
updates some 9 months ago.  Lately, the machine has been locking
up every once in a while and I'm trying to decide whether it's worth
it to try diagnosing the problem or time to upgrade the OS.

I'm leaning towards the latter, but have never had to configure iptables,
NAT, etc. by hand and am not especially looking forward to doing so.
Mandrake SNF provides an easy, web-based config tool that handles all
of the settings for the dialup gateway and firewall.  I can handle
configuring samba for file/print serving.

Do current distros offer something like this, and which would be
a good one to try?  I'm really not up on what current distros offer, 
and most reviews are desktop-oriented.  Given equal tools, I'd lean
towards a Debian-based system.

The machine is a Pentium 133, with 80MB RAM, an ISA analog modem and
running on a peer-to-peer LAN.

Thanks,

Greg

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