After reading my article on stolen IP addresses, Natalya Kuznet asked if someone could steal your mobile IP address. I very much doubt that anyone would even try to steal your mobile IP address, for ...

The problem with putting nomadic devices on to the Internet is that the Internet is designed to route packets hierarchically. The Mobile IP protocol was created to address this issue directly. Network ...

In the previous sections, we looked at how move detection and Mobile IP handover policy initiate a Mobile IP handover. Before we look at the messaging that performs a Mobile IP handover, we look at ...

Looking to use a private network on your iPhone? There's a variety of reasons you might want to use one, and it's easier than ...

The internet relies on a system of addresses that treats every computer, tablet and smartphone as a distinct device, allowing all of them to communicate with each other. Because many kinds of devices ...

There is a lot of gray area within the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But there's something that's black and white and, frankly, WRONG: An IP address should not be considered personal data ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s profile may be devoid of identifying ...

Knowing how an IP address identifies a host on a network can be confusing. Before you begin calculating various addresses, you should know the fundamentals of IP addressing. Todd Lammle describes this ...

Before we start putting together the pieces of the Mobile IP puzzle, we should take a closer look at the big picture. Given the components of the Mobile IP solution, how do they all work together?