near newbie question

[Devin Rankin]

I have been running Linux on one of my boxes for about 4 months now.  I'm not 
quite a newbie, but I don't feel near as confident with it as I do with 
Windows.  But I have been able to do basic stuff with it like get it talking 
to my home network and getting out through my router to the internet.

My next project is to hook up a modem so I can call into my network and get 
files when I am away.   I would also like the dial up connection to have 
access to the internet through my cable modem.  

What software packages should I be looking at to do something like this?  I 
think I can work out the detail by reading the man files.  I just need to 
know where to start.

I'm running Suse 8.0 on an AMD 1.1 Ghz processor.

Thanks

Devin