Use Arch as a gateway

Hey,
I have read some of the Wiki articles on Sharing a connection, but I was not sure if those were the right ones for my setup. What is want to do is the following: I have two ethernet cards on my Linux box and a wireless router available. I want to make the router use the Linux box (Arch) as a gateway so that I can share its connection wirelessly with other computers.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Robert.

:DI also have my linux firewall, server, gateway in the same arch PC here, due to limit in money :P. But it does not a matter if you set up you iptables correctly to do NAT as well as blocking unused ports. I am using dialup connection with speedtouch adsl modem, so you can easily set it up with ppp.
so my suggestion is on the arch gateway, you set up iptables and ppp to connect to the internet. With another ethernet interface, you connect to wireless router with network 172.16.0.0/24, for example. from the wireless router, you share connections with client PC by using ip address 10.0.0.0/24, for example. If you can setup you wireless router as a bridge, you need only one private network. At the arch gateway, you need to statically setup your routing table, with route command to point to your private network so that it can route traffic correctly. For example:
route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.16.0.2
where 172.16.0.2 is the ip address of your wireless router.
We are archers, so it is better to stay away from the fucking stupid Microsoft Windows.
Cheers.

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