DHCP Proxy Tradeoffs

More Con’s
• scalability? potentially large impact to home agent load
• need mechanism to avoid increasing handoff latencies due to coupling of registrations with proxy lease renewals
  ? adds more complexity
  

MOBILE HOST

HOME DHCP SERVER

HOME

AGENT++

RE-REGISTRATION

REQUEST

ACK

REPLY

Mobile IP

DHCP

Registration Updates or Renewals

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