[menog] IPv6 routing

[Richard Barnes]

Actually, IP mobility has been around for a while, both for IPv4 and
IPv6.  The Wikipedia article on the subject has some good starting
pointers:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP>

One technique that I hear has gotten some attention in 3G/WiMAX
circles (and which isn't on the main wikipedia page) is Proxy Mobile
IP:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_Mobile_IP>
Kind of nice because it doesn't require upgrades to the host, but it
requires some weird contortions in the network (VPN links to edge
routers).

AFAICT, there hasn't been a whole lot of deployment because the
problem that mobile IP solves (enabling a host to keep the same
address) isn't a problem for a lot of Internet applications, in
particular web browsing and email access.



On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Umair Mansoor
<umairbinmansoor at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear,
>
> Since the wireless revolution took place, there has been a lot of active
> research in the area. As a somewhat distant observer of the new research
> going particularly in IPv6 and IP routing in general, I am curious to know
> how the routing issue for a roaming, fixed IP (WiMax/3G) client would be
> addressed. Would it not affect the hierarchical structure of IPv6? Among the
> prospective solution (that I have come across so far), apart from VPN, would
> be Locator Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP). Kindly comment on this...
>
> Regards,
> Umair bin Mansoor
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