An arrangement for providing IP mobility for a mobile station (MS)
provides a care-of-address (COA) for routing data packets when the MS is
away from home. In one embodiment, the arrangement includes support
nodes, called gateway GPRS support nodes (GGSN) or serving GPRS gateway
support nodes (SGSN), and a foreign agent (FA) having an IP address. In
order to save IP addresses and radio resources, the FA is integrated into
one of the support nodes (e.g., the SGSN), and the IP address of, or an
IP address provided by the FA is also used as the MS COA.