Two wireless router/modems, one USB printer, one shared hard drive

Hi, I am looking to use my new mac mini server to do the following:
1) Link my two separate modems together into one network (Ethernet link aggregation?)
- FYI; I also have an airport extreme, and possibly an extra mac mini at my disposal
2) Share a hard drive both internally and via a new FTP
3) Share a printer that currently only works when connected to one network.
Is it possible? Do I need to buy any additional hardware?
Please feel free to go into as much detail as you can!

You will likely want a mid-grade gateway with load balancing and link failover, and probably also public DNS services with both of your IP addresses returned in round-robin.
I would not recommend tussling with a Mac to (try to) make it into an IP gateway/firewall/router device.
[Here is a selection process for a gateway/firewall/router widget|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1724] for a server.
The printer and the rest of the stuff located behind the box is secondary picking a box with the expected features, and then port-forwarding or VPN access will be available to, well, whatever.
Big video (serving) activity can easily exceed the bandwidth available with DSL links.

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