Getting FreeBSD And Novell To Work Together?

Tinfoil asks: "I am the admin at a small company looking at the B2B & B2C markets and also (in the more immediate future) remote connections to our database over the net. The main server, and the server that the DB is kept on is a Novell Netware 5 server. I don't want to pipe the Internet connection (SDSL) into this. Rather, I want a box in-between to act as a gateway. So, my question is this: Will FreeBSD (which I am a relative newbie with) connect to and act as a good and secure gateway to the Novell box? And what about VPN (or other similar options). I do not want another Novell box as that would be even worse. Thoughts?"