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| + | ====== Mobile IP ====== | ||
| + | [[wp>Mobile_IP|Mobile IP]] (MIP) can be used to enable seamless switching between different kinds of WAN links (e.g. WWAN/WLAN). The mobile node hereby remains reachable via the same IP address (home address) at any time, independently of the WAN link being | ||
| + | used. Effectively, any WAN link switch causes very small outages during switchover while keeping all IP connections alive. | ||
| + | Moreover, NetModule routers also support [[wp>NAT_Traversal |NAT-Traversal]] for mobile nodes running behind a firewall (performing NAT), which makes mobile nodes even there accessible from a central office via their home address, and thus, bypassing any complicated VPN | ||
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| + | The home agent accomplishes this by establishing a tunnel (similar to a VPN tunnel) between itself and the mobile node. WAN link switching works by telling the home agent that the WAN IP address (called the care-of address in MIP terms) of the | ||
| + | mobile node has changed. The home agent will then encapsulate packets destined to a mobile node’s home address into a tunnel packet containing the current care-of address of the mobile node as its destination address. | ||
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| + | To prevent problems with firewalls and private IP addressing, the MIP implementation always employs reverse tunneling, which means that all traffic sent by a mobile node is relayed via the tunnel to the home agent instead of directly being conveyed to the final destination. This fact also empowers MIP to be used as a lightweight VPN replacement (without payload secrecy). | ||
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| + | The MIP implementation supports RFCs [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3344|3344]], [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5177|5177]], [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3024|3024]] and [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3519|3519]]. For applications requiring vast numbers of mobile nodes, interoperability with the Cisco 2900 Series home agent implementation has been verified. However, since NetModule routers implement a mobile node as well as a home agent, a MIP network with up to 10 mobile nodes can be implemented without requiring expensive third party routers. | ||