Re: Mobile IP - Home Agent address

From: Stephen Fisher (stephentfisher@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 28 2005 - 13:48:10 GMT-3


On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:01:21PM -0400, ccie2be wrote:

> In none of the examples is a "Home Agent" ip address manually
> configured.
>
> Since a HA is a router and can have lots of ip addresses, what
> determines which of those addresses becomes the HA address which the
> FA or MN use to reach the HA and how do the FA and MN find out what
> address that is?

Once you enter the "ip mobile home-agent" command, any IP/interface on
the router can be used as the HA address. The MNs have the HA address
configured manually, in the case of a mobile router "home-agent x.x.x.x"
It is best to use a loopback interface for the HA address so it doesn't
go down.

Steve



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