Connection Sharing on demand

Hi,
I have a network in my office with about 20 desktops running XP Pro and
some of them running Win98, they all have internet connection through
ICS on an old PC running Win98.

Now, I need a way to restrict the internet connection without restring
LAN access, so I'm thinking in using that old PC to run a DHCP server
on Linux/BSD/etc to provide basic LAN connectivity, AND providing some
sort of dial-up-like connection to internet. So any user who have a
logon to connect on the internet can sit in any of the terminals and
just dial-in to get connected.
I think that can be done with some sort of "reversed" VPN (you connect
to get out, and not in), but that seems kind lame.
How can that be done? There are any recommended distros (preferably
mini-distros) made for that purpose?

Thanks in advance,
Luiz Borges

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