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

• Configuring the Mobile IP Configuration File Task Map

• Modifying the Mobile IP Configuration File

• Modifying the Mobile IP Configuration File Task Map

• Displaying Mobility Agent Status

• Displaying Mobility Routes on a Foreign Agent

Configuring the Mobile IP Configuration File

When you configure the mipagent.conf file for the first time, you need to perform the following tasks:

1. Depending on your organization's host's requirements, determine what functionality your Mobile IP agent can provide:

   • Foreign agent functionality only

   • Home agent functionality only

   • Both foreign and home agent functionality

2. 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.

3. 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

How to Create the Mobile IP Configuration File

1. Become superuser on the system where you want to enable Mobile IP.

2. 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

3. 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.

• Edit the /etc/inet/mipagent.conf file and add the following lines.

  [General] Version = 1.0

  
  

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.