NEPL Enhancements

NEPL-SE proposes some new features to NEPL (NEMO Platform for Linux). NEPL SE is now obsolete, it is adviced to use the reference implementation on the mobile-ipv6.org webpage.

NEPL-SE is originally based on MIPL2-RC3. The code was ported from the nightly NEPL snapshot (currently the nemo-20051101 snap) to the MIPL2-RC3 release.

NEPL-SE also includes some small fixes from the nightly MIPL2 snapshot, and aims to include the following features:

• Mobile Network Prefix Delegation, from draft-ietf-nemo-prefix-delegation-00
  (20051202 - NEW, see in the Download section)

• Some basic interface preferences mechanism (OBSOLETE)

Documentation and Support

The NEPL (NEMO Platform for Linux) HOWTO will show you how to setup step-by-step a NEPL test platform.

The features implemented in NEPL-SE are still experimental, and may not work as expected. Please read carefully the documentation included in the packages. For any questions or bug report regarding those features, please send a mail on our support mailing list. As those features are not supported by the MIPL2 developpers, please do not complain on the MIPL2 mailing list. For the latest news regarding the development of those features, please subscribe to our announce mailing list.

Download

• NEPL-SE 1.0
  This package does not include any of the features described above.
  This is the core of the system on which are based the enhancements.
  This package needs the MIPL2-RC3 kernel patch to work properly. Please download it here.
  This package will be from time to time upgraded and aims to be replaced by the official NEPL package.

• Mobile Network Prefix Delegation for NEPL-SE-1.0 [Pre-release 1, v20051202]
  This package includes Prefix Delegation to NEPL-SE-1.0 as well as the interface preference mechanism described below. Apply the patch against NEPL-SE 1.0 and read carefully the README.txt file included in the package in order to configure Prefix Delegation for your Home Agent and Mobile Router. For the interface preference mechanism, read carefully the BUGS file and nemod.conf manpage (included in NEPL-SE, after patching) to configure your multihomed node.

• Dynamic prefix advertisement for Quagga/rtadv [Last update: 2005-12-21]
  This package can be used when using Prefix Delegation for NEPL.
  Prefix Delegation for NEMO automatically configures new addresses on the Mobile Router's ingress interface. This package allows rtadv (Quagga's router advertisement daemon) to automatically advertise the prefixes related to the new addresses configured on an interface. Download the package and read carefully the README.txt file.

• Interface Preference patch for NEPL-SE-1.0
  This patch adds some interface preference for multihomed MRs and MNs to NEPL-SE-1.0.
  Apply this patch against NEPL-SE 1.0 then read carefully the BUGS file and nemod.conf manpage to configure your multihomed node.
  NOTE: This patch is now obsolete, as the official NEPL packages now supports some preference mechanism. It is safer to use the one included in the official package (see the NEPL official package and the NEPL HOWTO).

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