Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built firewall/ router Linux distributions. (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.) I've used both IpCop and Smoothwall; both support various kinds of WAN links, including USB modems:
http://www.ipcop.org/
http://smoothwall.org/
HTH,
David
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