Sorry forgot to cc IPng
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hesham Soliman (EPA) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, 14 October 2000 12:42
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [MOBILE-IP] MIPv6 node location detection
>
> > What is the difference between two advertisement below ?
> > - Renumbered home link router advertisement
> > - Router advertisement in a foreign link
> >
> > My question is why the mobile node don't just add the new address
> > in MN's address list. How do the MN decide whether it start MIPv6
> > process or autoconfiguration process for renumbered home link address.
> > What if the all home addresses in the list have expired before the MN
> > get FA's router advertisement, can the MN still use the expired address
> > record
> > in it's system ?
> >
> => I think you're certainly asking the right question but
> perhaps to the wrong mailing list :)
> If I understand you correctly, you're saying that while the
> MN is at Home, if a new advertisement is received with a new
> prefix, how does it know that this is not another foreign subnet.
> Well based on my rusty knowledge of ND and stateless address
> configuration, it doesnt know. But I don't think that this is
> strictly
> a MIP issue. While you're at home MIP does not do anything
> for you. So that's why I'll cc IPng on this to see if someone can
> give you a better answer, or maybe I missed something here.
> BTW FA's do not exist in MIPv6.
>
>
>
>
>
> > I also can't find RFC or draft which define exactly address list in a
> > MIPv6 MN. A IPv6 node have a address list and every prefix has
> lifetime.
> > Please give me some advice on it.
> >
> >
> >
--------------------------------------------------------------------
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
