Patent ID: 8942246
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A Mobile Access Gateway node of an IP network, the Mobile Access Gateway node comprising: a server configured to provide configuration information, said server including a server memory configured to store configuration information, and a processing unit configured to generate a request for configuration information associated with a mobile terminal that has attached to the network, to cache the configuration information in the server memory, and to include one or more items of configuration information from the cached information in a message to be sent to the mobile terminal; wherein the configuration information comprises Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) information and includes an IPv4 Home Address, and an IPv6 Home Network Prefix (HNP) for the mobile terminal; wherein the processor is configured to ignore a first DHCP Request sent from the mobile terminal using a unicast address for a server of another Mobile Access Gateway and to provide a DHCP server address to the mobile terminal in response to a DHCP Discovery message sent from the mobile terminal using a broadcast address for multiple DHCP servers.