foreign network

Because standard Internet routing mechanisms deliver all traffic to a device's home network, it was once necessary to change a mobile device's IP address each time it connected through a foreign network. To overcome this drawback, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has developed the Mobile IP standard and several enhancements to it.

Read more about foreign network: - The foreign network is described in IETF RFC 2002. - SearchNetworking.com has an article about "Managing safe and secure remote connections."

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