RFC 3024 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2001
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised
Overview
RFC 3024, “Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised”, is a Proposed Standard document published in January 2001 by G. Montenegro. It obsoletes RFC 2344. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document proposes backwards-compatible extensions to Mobile IP to support topologically correct reverse tunnels. This document does not attempt to solve the problems posed by firewalls located between the home agent and the mobile node's care-of address. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 2001
- RFC 3023 XML Media Types
- RFC 3025 Mobile IP Vendor/Organization-Specific Extensions
- RFC 3022 Traditional IP Network Address Translator
- RFC 3026 Liaison to IETF/ISOC on ENUM
- RFC 3027 Protocol Complications with the IP Network Address Translator
- RFC 3028 Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language
- RFC 3019 IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol
- RFC 3029 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Data Validation and Certification Server Protocols