New conceptual ideas for network programmability have been proposed in the recent past. The Opensig initiative, Active Networks and Mobile Agents are some of the approaches that have been proposed for adding programmability into networks. Active Networks address the problem of mismatch between the rate of innovation in network services and that of the end-user applications. In this model, the switches and routers in the network perform customised computations on the packets flowing through them. With this approach the networks become more readily extensible by allowing new network protocols to be deployed dynamically.

This paper describes an experiment with mobility in multi-agent

Mobile Agents (MA) seems to be the most suitable technology for distributed systems to integrate the Internet in a synergic way.