IPv6 and Mobile IPv6¶

Overview¶

Similarly to IPv4, IPv6 support is implemented by several cooperating modules. The base protocol is in the Ipv6 module, which relies on the Ipv6RoutingTable to get access to the routes. Interface configuration (address, state, timeouts, etc.) is held in the node’s InterfaceTable.

The Ipv6NeighbourDiscovery module implements all tasks associated with neighbour discovery and stateless address autoconfiguration. The data structures themselves (destination cache, neighbour cache, prefix list) are kept in Ipv6RoutingTable. The rest of ICMPv6’s functionality, such as error messages, echo request/reply, etc.) is implemented in Icmpv6.

Mobile IPv6 support has been contributed to INET by the xMIPv6 project. The main module is xMIPv6, which implements Fast MIPv6, Hierarchical MIPv6 and Fast Hierarchical MIPv6 (thus, \(x \in {F, H, FH}\)). The binding cache and related data structures are kept in the BindingCache module.