@Suiseiseki

> That is a proprietary kernel,

It's GPL. I haven't even tried to get the proprietary firmware blobs across the network.

> and what Debian ships (although I'm not sure that's the case anymore).

:rms: endorsed Gentoo. CRUX is source-based, you have to go way out of your way to get a proprietary thing to happen on it.

> Some attackers love to write rootkits into whatever storage that's available, whether that's the SPI flash chip for the BIOS or UEFI, the GPU VBIOS, or another undocumented storage medium.

If you can successfully carry out this attack on my network, I will not even try to get rid of you.

> I mean IPv4 packets are no longer being routed to the internet, while IPv6 packets are.

If IPv4 packets are not being routed to the internet, your network is broken.