Foreign agent

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The foreign agent is a router that works together with the mobile device ( mobile host ) in the mobile Internet . It provides the routing services to the external network for the mobile host . At the same time, the foreign agent takes over the forwarding of the IP-to-IP encapsulated data packets from the home agent to the mobile host.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Meinel , Harald Sack: WWW: Communication, Internetworking, Web Technologies. Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-62384-4 , p. 541.