Re: Question

[Tom Cooper <tom_cooper bigfoot com>]

If routing is what you want, 486's should be more than enough processor
power for a small network.  I'd take a look at the Linux Router Project.
http://www.linuxrouter.org/

Are you sure that you need to route between subnets?  For a small
environment I doubt that I would want to maintain that sort of thing.
You might want to investigaate using switches to reduce the number of
collision domains and keep the network flat.

It might be cheaper and easier to maintain to set up switching.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Tom Cooper
Luis Cova wrote:

> I need some help...I actually have in the office a single Class C
> network.. and i want to make subgroups...I know how to divade them and
> everything...what i want to know is what do you guys recommend me to
> use as router between each subnet...I am plannig on using some old 486
> with 16 MB RAM and 512 MB HD as routers...The router must be able to
> comunicate between all the subnets and also must be a proxy or
> cache.... So what program do you recommend me .... and how to
> configure it... Thanks