Administering Mobile IP (Task)
This chapter provides procedures for modifying, adding, deleting, and displaying parameters in the Mobile IP configuration file. This chapter also shows you how to display mobility agent status.
This chapter contains the following information:
Configuring the Mobile IP Configuration File
When you configure the mipagent.conf file for the first time, you need to perform the following tasks:
Depending on your organization's host's requirements, determine what functionality your Mobile IP agent can provide:
Create the /etc/inet/mipagent.conf file and enter the settings you require by using the procedures that are described in this section. You can also copy one of the following files to /etc/inet/mipagent.conf and modify it according to your requirements:
For foreign agent functionality, copy /etc/inet/mipagent.conf.fa-sample.
For home agent functionality , copy /etc/inet/mipagent.conf.ha-sample.
For both foreign agent and home agent functionality, copy /etc/inet/mipagent.conf-sample.
You can reboot your system to invoke the boot script that starts the mipagent daemon. You can also start mipagent by typing the following command on a command line:
# /etc/inet.d/mipagent start
Configuring the Mobile IP Configuration File Task Map
The following table provides a brief description of the tasks that are described in this section.
Table 24-1 Configuring the Mobile IP Configuration File Task Map
Task | Description | For Instructions, Go to ... |
|---|---|---|
Creating the Mobile IP configuration file | Involves creating the /etc/inet/mipagent.conf file or copying one of the sample files | |
Configuring the General section | Involves typing the version number into the General section of the Mobile IP configuration file | |
Configuring the Advertisements section | Involves adding labels and values or changing them in the Advertisements section of the Mobile IP configuration file | |
Configuring the GlobalSecurityParameters section | Involves adding labels and values or changing them in the GlobalSecurityParameters section of the Mobile IP configuration file | |
Configuring the Pool section | Involves adding labels and values or changing them in the Pool section of the Mobile IP configuration file | |
Configuring the SPI section | Involves adding labels and values or changing them in the SPI section of the Mobile IP configuration file | |
Configuring the Address section | Involves adding labels and values or changing them in the Address section of the Mobile IP configuration file |
How to Create the Mobile IP Configuration File
Become superuser on the system where you want to enable Mobile IP.
Depending on your preference, do one of the following substeps.
In the /etc/inet directory, create an empty file named mipagent.conf.
From the following list, copy the sample file that provides the functionality you want to the file /etc/inet/mipagent.conf.
/etc/inet/mipagent.conf.fa-sample
/etc/inet/mipagent.conf.ha-sample
/etc/inet/mipagent.conf-sample
Add or change configuration parameters in the /etc/inet/mipagent.conf file to conform to your configuration requirements. The remaining procedures in this section describe the steps that you perform.
How to Configure the General Section
If you copied one of the sample files, you can omit this procedure because the sample file contains this entry.
Note - The /etc/inet/mipagent.conf file must contain the preceding entry.
"General Section" provides descriptions of the labels and values that are used in this section.