Anyone doing Mobile IP?

[Cooky]

Does anyone have Mobile IP deployed on their network?
Is it easy to deploy?

The concept looks easy Cisco Mobile IP

But I'm not sure exactly what's involved...the example above uses Birdstep Mobile IP client, but when I go to Birdstep.com, I can't find any software by that name.

 

[spidey07]

I messed with it about 6 years ago. It's a pretty dead technology. What are you trying to do?

 

[Cooky]

We have a few applications that are very sensitive to network...one brief drop when users undock and get on wireless, the app freaks and user needs to re-launch.
The idea is have a seamless roaming between wired and wireless networks.

So I think the solution is either Mobile IP, or completely wireless.

Thoughts?

 

[spidey07]

If that's your goal then mobile IP might be what you need. But again, it's been quite a while since I've messed with it. I did it before there was a good layer3 wireless roaming solution. I'd be more concerned about why the application misbehaves so much.

If mobility is required then I'd probably recommend an all wireless solution as that's the entire goal of wireless - mobility.

 

[kevnich2]

It sounds like the user's are docked with laptops and the applications are launched and use the laptop's wired NIC for communication then when the laptop is removed, it takes a few seconds for the data to switch to the WLAN card which would cause a dropout and probably errors if your using database apps or anything that that has a constant data feed. If your going with web based apps at all, that would also help out as a few seconds of dropping wouldn't usually affect them.

Honestly though, if the WLAN of the laptops has enough bandwidth to handle what they're needing, just disable or unplug the wired NIC and go wireless all the time.