Patent ID: 7298743

Claim:
A method for supporting mobile routers in IPv6, comprising: obtaining, by a mobile router from a visited network, a care-of-address associated with an address configuration; registering, by the mobile router, the care-of-address with a home agent of the mobile router; establishing, by the mobile router, a bi-directional tunnel between the mobile router and the home agent; forwarding from the mobile router to the home agent configuration information of a mobile network via the bi-directional tunnel wherein the mobile network is accessible through the mobile router; requesting that packets that include any address prefix within a set of prefixes be forwarded to the mobile router; forwarding a packet from the mobile router to a mobile node on the mobile network, wherein the mobile node has a care-of address that includes a prefix of a home address of the mobile network, and wherein the configuration information is static and the mobile router is configured to send all outgoing traffic not destined to the mobile network, to the home agent.