Talk:Mobile IP

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  • 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!


Pedro Estrela (12:59, 11 May 2006 (UTC))

  • 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..."


  • I don't believe the NetBIOS part either. The purpose of NetBIOS is entirely different.
  • 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)

[edit] 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)