Patent ID: 7567503

Claim:
A mobile network control apparatus that maintains a connection constructed between a mobile network and a global network and that has a plurality of interfaces, the mobile network control apparatus comprising: a failure detection section that detects a failure of packet tunneling executed using a first interface of the plurality of interfaces, the first interface having a connection route to the global network; a search section that searches for a second interface from the plurality of interfaces when the failure is detected; an execution section that executes packet tunneling using the searched second interface instead of the first interface; and a multi-homing detection section that detects whether or not the mobile network control apparatus is multi-homed, wherein: when the mobile network control apparatus is not multi-homed, the search section searches for an alternative apparatus having the connection route to the global network and belonging to the mobile network, and determines an ingress interface of the plurality of interfaces as the second interface, the ingress interface having a connection route to the searched alternative apparatus, when the mobile network control apparatus is multi-homed, the search section searches for an alternative egress interface having the connection route to the global network from the plurality of interfaces, and determines the alternative egress interface as the second interface, and the search section further comprises a registration section that transmits a registration request of a binding between a home address of the first interface as a home address and an address of the second interface as a care of address in the mobile network control apparatus, from the second interface to the home agent of the first interface.