Services
n Many other standardized and non-standardized services
exist. Mobile computers will need to find out about the
existence of these services to provide a complete
computing environment to the end-user:
directory services: X.500, LDAP
e-mail services: POP, IMAP
other Internet services: FTP, HTTP, NNTP, DHCP
non-standardized services: printers, e-commerce servers, file
storage, …..
n Often, find servers in “neighborhood”, which changes over
time
n Configure device to use these servers automatically