Configuring a home agent, Configuring a home agent in router mode, Configuring a home agent -11 – Lucent Technologies 6000 User Manual

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Setting Up Virtual Private Networks

Configuring ATMP tunnels

MAX 6000/3000 Network Configuration Guide

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Ascend-Primary-Home-Agent=10.1.2.3,

Ascend-Home-Agent-Password="private"

When the mobile client logs into the Foreign Agent with the password ipx-unit, the
Foreign Agent uses RADIUS to authenticate the mobile client. It then looks for a profile with
an IP address that matches the Ascend-Home-Agent-IP-Addr value, so that it can bring up an
IP connection to the Home Agent.

Configuring a Home Agent

To configure an ATMP Home Agent, you must set parameters in the ATMP profile, verify that
the Home Agent can communicate across an IP link with the Foreign agent, and configure the
connection to the home network.

The link to the Foreign agent can be any kind of connection (dial-up, nailed, or Frame Relay,
for example.) or an Ethernet link, and it can be a local network or a remote network, provided
the two units communicate through an IP network.

Because the Home Agent does not establish a WAN connection on the basis of receiving
tunneled data, the link to the home network cannot be a regular switched dial-up connection,
but can be a nailed connection, a switched incoming connection from the home network, or a
routed connection.

Configuring a Home Agent in router mode

When the ATMP tunnel has been established between the Home Agent and Foreign Agent, the
Home Agent in router mode receives IP packets through the tunnel, removes the GRE
encapsulation, and passes the packets to its bridge/router software. In its routing table, the
Home Agent adds a host route to the mobile client.

Figure 11-3. Home Agent routing to the home network

The MAX requires settings for the IPX routing parameters in the Ethernet profile only if the
MAX is routing IPX. Following are the parameters (shown with sample settings) used for
configuring a Home Agent in router mode:

Ethernet

Mod Config

IPX Routing=Yes

Ether options...

mobile client

mobile client

mobile client

WAN

Internet

RADIUS

ATMP Tunnel

MAX

MAX

Foreign
Agent

Home
Agent

home
network

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