Technology - IPv6 4 - Address Selection & Mobility

Synopsis

We discuss how an IPv6 node chooses between its multiple IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. We discuss the elaborate protocols which provide special mobility capabilities for IPv6, including the ability to continue a session with the same IP address when the device switches its physical connection to another network. We also discuss IPv6’s Maximum Transmission Unit arrangements, concerning the length limit for packets sent on a particular route.

1. Synopsis
2. Introduction
3. Address selection
- 3.1 Complexity of various protocol combinations
4. MTU and Packet Fragmentation
- 4.1 MTU path discovery
- 4.2 Fragmentation header
5. Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6)
- 5.1 Examples of MIPv6 operation
  - 5.1.1 Mobile Node
  - 5.1.2 Home Agent
  - 5.1.3 Corresponding Node
  - 5.1.4 Care-of Address
- 5.2 Bi-directional Tunnel mode
- 5.3 Route Optimisation
  - 5.3.1 Establishment
  - 5.3.2 Direct operation
- 5.4 Planned enhancements to MIPv6
  - 5.4.1 Network Mobility (NEMO)
  - 5.4.2 Hierarchical MIPv6 Management (HMIPv6)
  - 5.4.3 Fast Handovers
- 5.5 Mobile IPv6 applications
  - 5.5.1 Bandwidth and continuity
  - 5.5.2 Quality of Service (QoS)
  - 5.5.3 Multicasting
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Number of pages: 10

Status: Archived

Last update: 19 December 2007
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Author: Robin Whittle

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