A standard — proposed by a working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force — that defines a packet-forwarding mechanism for mobile and remote hosts, so that remote users can connect to their networks over the Internet. It can work with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). See DHCP.

Defines a packet-forwarding mechanism for mobile and remote hosts so that remote users can connect into their networks over the Internet. Can work with DHCP. Compare with ATMP.

A protocol used to provide IP mobility to IPv4-based nodes, defined in RFC-2002).

A standard for allowing mobile computers to roam from one network to another while maintaing network connections.

A standard that allows users with mobile devices whose IP addresses are associated with one network to stay connected when moving to a network with a different IP address.

Mobile IP is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard communications protocol that is designed to allow mobile device users to move from one network to another while maintaining a permanent IP address. Mobile IP is described in IETF RFC 3344 (Obsoleting both RFC 3220 and RFC 2002).