fedora as a gateway / server

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

Folks,

I need a little guidance, not just a set of 'do this' instructions.
Although, I won't toss those!  :)  

I have built a small network at home for the family using five windows
boxes and one Linux box.  Currently, everything plugs into a DSL Modem
for Internet connectivity.  

I would like to change this to have a Linux box ( Pentium II )
residential serve as a gateway to provide firewall and proxy services.
I suppose that it will also need to behave as a DHCP server?  Will it
need a second NIC installed that will attach to a hub for the other
boxes?  Is Fedora too big an OS for this?  Something smaller, Ubuntu?

In addition, it would be nice to have another Linux box ( Pentium III )
acting as a web/db/file server.  I plan to use Apache and Oracle for
this.  Is Samba still what I should use to store Windows files?  Is
there a mature IIS 6 'clone' or drop in replacement out there?  I
haven't looked for this yet, so, don't yell.

Any thoughts and/or suggestions before I go off to RTFM?  

thanks,
Michael


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