One of the major costs for maintenance of PCs in a networked environment are the labor costs of setting it up, reconfiguring it, and periodically moving it. A low cost controller which requires a professional system administrator could easily end up costing more to maintain each month than it originally cost. DHCP can go a long way toward solving this. Unlike many other DHCP clients, it has been tested with NAT local addresses as well as conventional public Internet addresses. Overview Everyone agrees that the market for Internet appliances will be incredibly large when it finally takes off.
Some critics argue that the cost of the appliances is too high for mass acceptance.
The list of applications could go one forever, but you probably have the idea by now. The gateway to the home or small office must allow people to interact with their home Internet appliances from remote locations such as their office. Work with existing IPv4 end-node machines and appliances. Operates over the existing public Ipv4 infrastructure. Is transparent to applications, not requiring special gateways in traditional NAT routers.