Patent ID: 7986667

Claim:
A method performed by a single network element, comprising: receiving a mobility message at the single network element indicating a mobile node has coupled to a new access port, wherein the mobility message further indicates that the mobile node moved from an old access port to the new access port, and wherein the single network element comprises the old and new access port; adding an entry in a forwarding table of the single network element, the entry associated with an old egress engine to redirect a set of packets destined to the mobile node to a new egress engine, wherein the new egress engine is associated with the new access port, wherein the forwarding is based on a special egress key associated with the new egress engine, wherein the special egress key indicates encapsulation and process information associated with the new access port; and forwarding the set of packets to the mobile node from the old egress engine via the new egress engine.