Mobile IP: Processes
Agent Discovery: To find agents
- Home agents and foreign agents advertise periodically on network layer and optionally on data link
- They also respond to solicitation from mobile node
- Mobile selects an agent and gets/uses care-of-address
- If mobile on home link, no other mobile IP feature is used
Registration:
- Mobile registers its care-of-address with home agent. Either directly or through foreign agent
- Home agent sends a reply to the mobile node via FA