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packets sent by the correspondent node to the mobile node. Packets
from the mobile node, on the other hand, can go directly to the cor-
respondent node with no tunneling required. is asymmetry is cap-
tured by the term triangle routing, where a single leg of the triangle
goes from the mobile node to the correspondent node, and the home
agent forms the third vertex controlling the path taken by data from
the correspondent node to the mobile node.
1.2.8.2 Security Issues A great deal of attention is being focused on
making mobile IP coexist with the security features coming into
use within the Internet. Firewalls, in particular, cause difficulty for
mobile IP because they block all classes of incoming packets t ...