A home agent management apparatus and method for routing a packet using a
home network equipment as a home agent in a mobile Inter Protocol version
6 (IPv6) are provided. The home agent management apparatus includes a
packet analyzer, which receives a packet and analyzes the packet; a
database, which stores information indicating whether a home agent of a
home network operates normally according to the result of the analysis;
and a home agent function executor, which performs a home agent function
in place of the home agent when the home agent does not operate normally.
Accordingly, a load concentrated on a home agent of an Internet Service
Provider (ISP) can be split.