From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Triangular routing
Triangular routing
Triangular routing is routing that sends a packet to a This may lead to problems when using services that
proxy system before transmission to the intended des- do ingress filtering, since the source address on the pack-
tination. Triangular routing is a problem in mobile IP, et will be the home address of the mobile node, not the
however it finds applications in other networking sce- care-of address assigned to the node on its guest net-
narios, for example to avoid problems associated with work. To avoid this, many Mobile IP implementations of-
network address translation (NAT), implemented for ex- fer the option of tunneling packets from the mobile node
ample by Skype.[citation needed] through the home agent too.
Unlike in mobile IPv4, mobile IPv6 avoids triangular
Description routing and is therefore as efficient as native IPv6.[citation
needed]
In mobile IP, packets that are sent to a mobile node are
first routed to the mobile node’s home subnet and then
forwarded to the mobile node at its current location by
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its home agent. However, packets that are sent from the
mobile node are not handled in this way, but are instead
sent straight to their destination.
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