Like many other Fortune 500 companies, Ernst & Young started on a migratory path towards the TCP/IP protocol during the mid-1990s. Although TCP/IP would be relatively easy to implement on the corporate network, transitioning Ernst & Young's mobile auditors to a purely TCP/IP-based solution seemed impossible - to some.

In early 1997 Ernst & Young contacted Weird Solutions about their predicament: Mobile auditors regularly formed small workgroups at customer sites, but these users also needed full access to the corporate network. Was it possible use TCP/IP in both networks? Furthermore, could it be made fully automatic - the equivalent of Plug-n-Play TCP/IP?

Working with Ernst and Young's New Technology Group, Weird Solutions came up with an idea: A DHCP server on every mobile computer that would allocate addresses only when no other DHCP servers were detected. Peer-to-peer DHCP servers that could elect a leader or submit to a corporate server, in unison and on demand. Automatically. Thus was born DHCP Auto.

Today DHCP Auto runs on more than 16,000 machines worldwide, providing most of Ernst & Young's worldwide mobile auditor workforce with Plug-n-Play TCP/IP. Interested? Click on the Products tab above to see what DHCP Auto can do for you.