Ubuntu as router for MAC ? Avahi vs Dhcp

[Bill Marcum]

On 2009-09-18, ktt <kestutis98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like my Ubuntu machine to share files with MAC and to act as 
> a router. I established Ubuntu+MAC OSX connection for file sharing 
> and available services advertising as it was described
> http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/...achine-volume/
> It works nicely.
> I would like to make my Ubuntu machine as internet router for my MAC 
> as well, but here curiosities begin: eth0 has no IP address, 
> dhcp3-server conflicts with Avahi. I have Flash media server on my 
> Ubuntu machine, so it's important to have it. I can use static IP 
> adress, but Avahi will not work.
>
eth0 has an IP address, but it's listed under eth0:avahi. It might be
possible for other machines to use that address as a default gateway.
Or perhaps you can create another alias like eth0:1 with a static address.
The avahi address might not always stay the same.