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Internet connection sharing (ICS) consists of a collection of technologies and services that make it possible to connect multiple computing and information devices on a network located in the home, a small business, or corporate branch office to the Internet through a single Internet connection. Computing resources on a home network include personal computers, video cameras, printers, scanners, and many other computing or home automation devices. For simplicity, this chapter refers to any resource on a home network as a "device."

ICS provides Internet access to multiple devices on the home network through a single Internet connection. ICS provides for this sharing of an Internet connection by allowing a device that runs the Microsoft® Windows® CE operating system to act as a gateway between the Internet and the home network. The gateway device uses one network connection for the Internet connection and a second network connection for the connection to the local network.

Windows CE does not support the services required to operate a full DHCP server. Windows CE does support, however, a subset of these services called the DHCP allocator. Windows CE implements the DHCP allocator as part of the ipnat component (Ipnat.dll).

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