I have a macbook with ubuntu quantal running on it and I also have a device with a linux distro (FYI, a raspberry pi*).
I've been trying to set up the device to share my laptop's wireless connection through the ethernet port. The problem is that I do not want to allow the ip address of the device to change (so I guess I don't want to use DHCP), since it has no interface other than the ssh connection that I open from my ubuntu laptop.
Thus, the question is: how can I set up both ubuntu and the device to have it using ubuntu's wireless connection through the ethernet cable, but without ever changing the ip address of the eth0 port in the device? I do not want to change it because I'd like to always be able to find it on the network without having to edit its filesystem in another machine...
* I think this problem is more related to ubuntu than to the raspberry pi, so I believe this is the right forum to ask this question.