Support for multi-homing protocols

A communications network comprising:

• a home network having a local mobility agent coupled to one or more foreign networks, each foreign network having a mobile access gateway that is connected to one or more mobile node;
• the local mobility agent having a cache entry table to maintain information relating to said one or more mobile nodes connected to said foreign network;
• said local mobility agent configured to provide information for mobile node connectivity in response to a registration request message received by the local mobility agent based on a comparison of information received in the request against the information on the cache entry table, said registration request message including a mobile node identifier, an access type identifier that indicates that communication access type used to connect the mobile node to at least one of the one or more foreign networks, a handover indicator that specifies whether the registration request message is associated with a handover to a new access type on a first foreign network to which one of the one or more mobile nodes is connected or a handover to a new foreign network, and an interface identifier that indicates a specific access interface being used to connect the mobile node to the one of the one or more foreign networks.