Mobile IP Networking

Mobile IP is increasingly being utilised in many disparate environments, from home workers to those constantly on the move.

Learn the essential elements associated with mobile IP networking and how it increases the efficiency of our workforce and maintains contact irrelevant of geography or the method of Internet connection.

Those attending will examine mobile IP implementation including home agents, foreign agents and secure tunnelling, before moving on to a comparison of mobile IPv4 against IPv6.

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Duration
2 days

Who should attend?
Technical staff responsible for implementing IP-based mobile networks, marketing and planning professionals working with mobile applications and systems vendors and network planners and implementers seeking to understand the role of mobile IP

Prerequisites
Delegates must have a detailed understanding of TCP/IP networking

Course objectives
Delegates gain an understanding of the nature of mobile IP services, planning and evaluating mobile IP in commercial products and services and implementing the appropriate security mechanisms

Qualifications
CableNet certificate

Course Content (100% Theory)

Mobile IP introduction
• The need for Mobile IP
• Review of IPv4
• Mobile IP design goals
• Mobile IP and wireless LANs

Home and foreign agents
• Care-of addresses

Agent discovery
• Home agent discovery
• Advertising
• Solicitation

Agent registration
• What does registration mean?
• How does it work?

Tunnelling & Real-time traffic
• IP-in-IP tunnelling
• Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

Routing
• Route optimisation techniques
• Review of IPv4 routing

Mobile IP security
• The requirements for security
• Principles of cryptography and encryption
• Public & private key systems
• Authorisation - PAP/CHAP

Integrating with IPv6
• Changes with IPv6
• IPv6 routing