Advanced: differences in Lion internet sharing bootpd.plist?

Hi all,
I'm afraid this question is quite specific. I'm trying to get my Kindle set up using internet sharing over wifi from my macbook. I've read on these forums that to do this requires changing a tag in the bootpd.plist file created by internet sharing. This tag that needs to be edited is "reply_threshold_seconds" (the problem is that the kindle aways uses 0 in the "number of seconds since boot" field of the dhcp request packet, and the mac has a filter of 4).
I'm running Lion and in my bootpd,plist file this tag does not exist. I even tried adding it to the file with no result. I wondered if anyone could confirm whether the way OSX handles this has indeed changed with Lion; and if so it would be amazing if anyone had any advice?
Thanks a lot,
Roland

If you use your MacBook Pro as the "server" connected to the Internet. you can connect 27" 2011 iMac to your MacBook Pro via a FireWire 800 cable. (assuming your MBP has a FireWire output, I don't own one).By using Target Disk Mode (Hold down the "T" key until you see "spinning gears" on Restart or Start-up).
Your MBP will appear as a Hard Disk on your 27" display or your 27" iMac can be displayed as a Hard disc on your MBP display.
Switch the firewall off on both machines (if it was on) to see if it helps;
Try to connect using a different device to the shared connection (another computer, smartphone, iPad, etc.);
Use an open connection first (no password), before trying with WEP;
Reverse the roles of the two computers (i.e. try sharing the connection from the MBP to the iMac).
Also, more details might help (OS X version on the machines, whether you are trying to share a wired connection, installed software which might interact with the network connections, etc.)
Hope this helps in some way.

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