@coolsport00 Sorry about the VMW need for the Cisco product. SOunds like you have a number of constraints, finances being I'm sure one of them! At least you have time on your hands and the means to experiment. You may, als, end up with a number of different platforms to meet your needs. We ran both Sun Microsystems and Red Hat Linux and Microsoft WIndows servers, each taking on specific duties. It's far from ideal and probably not very cost-effective, but you do what you have to to get stuff to work.