The various components in our Mobile IPv6 testbed are as follows.

Home Agents

The testbed employs four different Home Agents. One using the Microsoft MIPv6 technical preview implementation for Windows XP, another using MIPL v1.1, another using the Cisco Ohanami EFT and finally one Home Agent using KAME. The Microsoft, Linux and KAME Home Agents are all PC based routers each comprising AMD Athlon XP 2.6Ghz CPU 512MB RAM. The Cisco Home Agent is a 2611 XM with 128MB on board RAM.

Mobile Nodes

The Mobile Nodes in the testbed are dual-boot (Windows XP and Linux 2.4.26) machines and can therefore use either MIPv6 implementation of the two available operating systems. The Windows XP operating system has Service Pack 1 installed along with Microsoft’s Advanced Networking Pack update. The MIPv6 implementation on the Windows XP operating system

Correspondent Nodes

The two PC-based Correspondent Nodes comprise AMD Athlon XP 1.6Ghz CPUs and 256MB RAM. One of the PCs is a dual-boot Windows XP and Redhat Linux system, the other is a FreeBSD system running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE. Note that the Mobile Nodes may also perform the role of a Correspondent Node.

The make-up of the various components in our Mobile IPv6 testbed are summarised in Table 14-2.