Subject: [mobile-ip] Confusion regarding the lifetime field!!!!!!

From: "Anjaneyulu Vemu" <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Nov 2001 10:02:17 -0000

In the agent advertisement there are two parts : ICMP Router Advertisement & mobility 

extension. Both of them has the lifetime field. According to the RFC2002, algorithm 1 for 

move detection says that the lifetime in the ICMP Router Advertisement should be used for 

move detection.
The registration lifetime in the mobility extension is to be used in the registration 

request message.
 
Question : Does it mean that the mobile node will be sending registration request every x 

units (registration lifetime in mobility extension) until the ICMP lifetime expires???

OR

the mobile node will send the next registration request after he receives another agent 

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