Re: Gateway and link-local (IPv4) possible?

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle debian org>]

On 2011-05-22 17:21, Marc Luethi wrote:
> Well, they call it "internet connection sharing" over at Microsoft's
> place. At least that's what it used to be called in the Windows XP days.

This is probably still the case, searching for ICS and Windows7
got some promising hits at MSes domain, at least.

> I should think that it is "Automatic (DHCP)" with "Require IPv4
> addressing for this connection to complete" disabled. I'm not quite sure
> if some other features are needed such as "zeroconf networking" or
> similar, this might depend on your distribution.
...
> I think that with some of the functionality from zeroconf networking
> (wich provides LL-addressing for IPv4, mDNS name resolution, and service
> discovery), this should be feasible. 

OK, many thanks, I will dig into this. (Zeroconf and mDNS is
already used in my setup anyway, to there's probably not much
missing.)