On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Michael P. Griffin wrote:

> Thank you all. You have given me enough to get started and based on
> equipment suggestions a rough idea of cost. I will get back to you with more
> specific questions after I have pulled the wire and start to configure the
> system.
> 
> One last question though, what would be a good base system to run a domain
> name server, dhcp/bootp server and a router? I anticipate the load to be a
> maximum of 4 machines connected to the internet at any given point while a
> fifth machine might be hitting a file server and accessing an Oracle
> database over the network. There could be also be a print job running at the
> same time.

Let me put it this way...unless you have very deep pockets the limiting
factor will be your connection to the internet, not your routing box. Last
I heard a 486 could confortable route a T1 line w/o any trouble.

--rdp
 
> Thank you in advance for you help and thoughts.
> 
> Michael Griffin
> 
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