Extending Mobile IP (MIP) to support both local and remote access by using two MIP client stacks in the end node, a roaming Node in the local access network, a standard Home Agent in the remote network is described. Messages between the access node and the mobile node, and between the internal modules of the mobile node are used to control hand-off for each of multiple MIP clients operating in parallel in the mobile node and to enable backwards compatibility with legacy remote access clients.