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RFC 5944: IP Mobility Support for IPv4, Revised

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This document specifies protocol enhancements that allow transparent routing of IP datagrams to mobile nodes in the Internet. Each mobile node is always identified by its home address, regardless of its current point of attachment to the Internet. While situated away from its home, a mobile node is also associated with a care-of address, which provides information about its current point of attachment to the Internet. The protocol provides for registering the care-of address with a home agent. The home agent sends datagrams destined for the mobile node through a tunnel to the care-of address. After arriving at the end of the tunnel, each datagram is then delivered to the mobile node. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID
RFC5944
Published
November 2010
Authors
C. Perkins
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
int
Pages
100
Also known as
—
Obsoletes:
RFC 3344

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 4 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 2002 (1996)
  2. RFC 3220 (2002)
  3. RFC 3344 (2002)
  4. RFC 5944 (2010)

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