Talk:Mobile IP

Too technical

This article is way too technical. I am a scientist, do a lot of programming, but this article was over my head. Please someone with some communication skills clean this up!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.193.88 (talk • contribs)

NetBIOS

I was very surprised by the mentioned "netbios" similarities. I'm working in MIPv4/v6 since 1999, and I'm finishing my PhD on mobile data networks, were i've proposed the "TIMIP" micro-mobility scheme.

Through this time i've never seen any reference for this netbios similarity in any of teh extensive bibliography that I've studied.

Also, concerning rfcs 1001 and 1002, eventough I haven't read them, I couldn't find any of these mobility-related keywords in the RFCs: mobile / mobility / handover / handoff / terminal / agent / tunneling / encapsulation.

Thus, besides questioning this comment without further references, I also think that this line is extremly exagerated for the casual wikipedia reader "Readers may be intrigued to know that..." --Pedro Estrela (12:59, 11 May 2006 (UTC))

I don't believe the NetBIOS part either. The purpose of NetBIOS is entirely different.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.161.101.123 (talk • contribs)

NetBIOS works on the session layer, while Remote IP defines a behavior of IP discovery which is on the Network layer. Both NetBIOS and Mobile IP permit identification of remote host, but since most modern implementation of NetBIOS uses NetBIOS-over-TCP (as decribed in rfc1002) and thus requires a valid IP adresse assigned to a host, you need a lower form of IP-discovery fonctionnality like static IP, DHCP, or if the host tends to move from in and out of the network, Mobile IP. Mobile IP, in theory, autmagicaly creates a VPN with the old network, and re-acquires the old IP. It's a bit simplified, but I think it explains the difference between the 2. Sepper 16:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

NetBios

I have only found the following link which includes the same content copy/pasted in this article on the similarities between MIP and NetBios, but couldn't find any further references. If anyone can add additional references, please do, otherwise I believe this part should be deleted due to insufficient credible citing.--Goarany 07:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Invalid link

One of the references in this article gives me a 404 error as of 12 June 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.202.225.145 (talk) 10:12, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

History and Missing Bits

Mobile IP has evolved over time to its current state. Where historical forms deviate significantly from the description in the article, at least some note should be made to that effect to avoid being misleading.

Mobile IP is also not a single entity. This is mentioned in the article, but could probably be improved on. Suggested sources for helping with this:

• Hierarchical Mobile IP: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4140.txt and http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5380
• Proxy Mobile IPv6: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5213
• Fast Mobile IPv6: http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc5269
• Route Optimization: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4866.txt
• Adaptive Route Optimization: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.79.843
• Official Mobile IPv6 conformance test suite: http://cert.v6pc.jp/mipv6/