Roaming

Status Type Description

HomeSw itch/Home
VLAN
Thiscontroll er is thehom e agentfor a station and the client is on the VLAN on which it has an
IPaddress.
Mobile IP Visitor Thiscontroll er is notthe home agent for a client.
Mobile IP Binding (away) Thiscontroll er is the home agent for a client that is currently away.
HomeSw itch/Foreign
VLAN
Thiscontroll er is thehom e agentfor a cli entbut the client is currently on a different VLAN than
itshome V LAN(the VLAN from which it acquired its IP address).
Stale Thecl ient doesnot have connectivity in the mobility domain. Eitherthe controller has received a
disassociationmessage for a cl ient but has not received an association or registration request
forthe client from another controller, or a hom e agentbi nding for thestation has expired before
being refreshedby a foreign agent.
NoMobi lity Service Thecontroll er cannot provide mobility service to this client. Themobil e client may lose its IP
addressif it obtains the address via DHCP and has limited connectivity. The mobile client may
beusing an IP address that cannot be served, or there may be a roaming hole due to improper
configuration.

Table15 4:

ClientRoaming Status

You can view the roamings tatus of userso nany co ntrollerin the mobility domain:
Viewing user roaming status usi ng the CLI
show user
Roaming status can be one of the following:

Status Type Description

Associated Thiscl ient is on itshom e agentcontroll er and thecl ient is on theV LANon whi ch it hasan IP
address.
Visitor Thiscl ient is visiting this controller and the controller isnot its home agent.
Away Thisclient is currently away from its home agent controller.
ForeignV LAN Thiscl ient is on itshom e agentcontroll er butthe cli enti scurrently on a different VLAN than the
oneon w hich it has an IP address.
Stale Thisshould be a temporary state as the client will either recover connectivity or the client’s
entryis deleted when the stale timer expires.

Table15 5:

UserRoaming status

You can uset hefollowing CLI command to view the home agent, foreignagent, and roaming status for a specific
mobile client.
Viewing specific cl ient information using the C LI
show ip mobile trace <ip-address>|<mac-address>
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