Re: Handoff between PPP networks using MIPv6

William Allen Simpson <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:02:04 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pppext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ashutosh Dutta wrote:
> Has anybody tried handing off from one PPP network to another PPP 
> network using MIPv6 in an IPv6 network. We seem to have the following 
> problem:
> 
> - When we have MIPv6 module on, it does not allow us to bring the PPP 
> interface down. We need to reboot the system.
> 
You don't give enough information, such as OS, provider, etc.

When I originally designed MIPv6 (it came first, and I later back-ported
it to v4), it was designed with inter-system handoff in mind.  As a new
system is detected, the new system should send a new LCP configure request.
There is no need to administratively bring the interface down, the PPP
state machine should smoothly handle it.

I'm sorry that more recent specifications and implementations are not
well designed.


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