Router with an old 486/66

["Miguel González Castaños" <mgc@tid.es>]

Dear all,

 I just got an old 486 with only 8 Megabytes with no CD-Rom. I put an
1,6 Gb HD and I am trying to get some more memory (which is quite
difficult). I installed a RedHat 7.3 on other PC and then switch the HD
to the 486, worked fine :)

 By now I have a Pentium II as gateway, but for two or three PCs
connected in a home LAN I think Its too much and I would like to use
that Pentium II as server.

 So I am trying to configure this old 486 as my gateway for my home lan.
I have one ISA 3com 10/100 but I am wondering if It would be worth to
buy another one only 10 Mbps because it is connect to a cable
connection...

 For now everything is ok, my questions are:

 1.- 8 Mbs are enough or I really need to try to find more memory. I
mean, I am trying to get more memory but I wont buy more ISA network
cards if 8 megs is not enough to make it work right, at least I wont buy
more net cards until I find more memory...

 2.- I am doing some research of how to also add wireless capabilities
to such gateway. I didnt know until I read an article at O`Reilly that
there are ISA-to-PCMCIA adapters and then I could use them in an old
486. My question is, those adapters work fine? I could used them in the
case I update the PCMCIA wireless card to 802.11g ?

Many thanks for your time and hope these question are not very
off-topic.

Miguel