AICCU

Infobox Software
name = AICCU



caption = Automatic IPv6 Connectivity Client Utility
developer =
released = [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/history/ 1 August 2004 (beta1)]
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = C (programming language)
operating system = Cross-platform
language = English
genre = Internet
license = 3-clause BSD
website = [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/ http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/]

AICCU (Automatic IPv6 Connectivity Client Utility) is a popular [http://www.sixxs.net/misc/usage/#Tunnels SixXS Usage] showing the number of tunnels of the SixXS service, most are using AICCU to set the tunnel up] cross-platform utility for automatically configuring an IPv6 tunnel. It is free software available under a BSD license. The utility is originally provided for the [http://www.sixxs.net SixXS Tunnel Broker] but it can also be used by a variety of other Tunnel Brokers.

History and development

AICCU is written and maintained by Jeroen Massar. Various patches from other persons have been incorporated, these persons are acknowledged in the [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/history/ AICCU - Changelog] ] for their contributions. AICCU is the successor of the Windows-only and Linux/BSD-variety of the [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/heartbeat/ Heartbeat] tool that was provided by SixXS, solely to use the Heartbeat protocol. When the AYIYA protocol came into existence it was decided that to support this new protocol it would be better to merge the Windows and Unix trees into one program and give it a bit flashier appearance. The name of the Heartbeat tool was then changed to reflect that it did more than providing mere support for the heartbeats.

Award of Excellence

AICCU has won the Award of Excellence in the Implementation Category of the 2004 Edition of the IPv6 Application Contest [http://www.v6pc.jp/apc2004/en/awards.html#01 2004 Edition of the IPv6 Application Contest] ] .

upported protocols

The following tunneling protocols are currently supported:
*6in4 - Standard IPv6 in IPv4 tunnels using Protocol 41 in the IPv4 protocol header.
*AYIYA - For IPv6 over IPv4 UDP in a secure manner and being able to work through a NAT.
* 6in4 Heartbeat - used for dynamic 6in4 tunnels
*L2TP (Experimental)

To configure these tunnels, AICCU retrieves the tunnel information from a Tunnel Broker using either one of the two protocols:
* [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/tic/ TIC] (Tunnel Information & Control protocol) - used for retrieving configuration information.
*TSP (Tunnel Setup Protocol) - used for retrieving configuration information (Experimental).

AICCU primarily uses the TIC protocol to automatically retrieve the configuration parameters of the tunnel that the user wants to have configured.

upport for other Tunnel Brokers

AICCU finds available Tunnel Brokers by looking up the TXT DNS records from "_aiccu.sixxs.net" and also "_aiccu" [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/brokers/ AICCU - Tunnelbroker Support] ] . The latter allows a local network to add their own Tunnel Broker(s) by adding records in the domains configured in their search path. Non-local Tunnel Brokers can be added by requesting the SixXS Staff to add an entry to the global DNS records.

upported Platforms

The following Operating Systems/Platforms/Distributions are supported by AICCU:
* IBM AIX
* DragonFlyBSD
* FreeBSD
* NetBSD
* OpenBSD
* Linux
* Mac OS X
* Sun Solaris
* Windows

Various distributions have an AICCU package included their distribution [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/aiccu Debian AICCU package] ] [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-misc/aiccu Gentoo AICCU package] ] [http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/aiccu Ubuntu AICCU package] ] [https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/ipv6/aiccu OpenWRT AICCU package] ] [http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/aiccu.html Redhat AICCU package] ] [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=sixxs-aiccu FreeBSD AICCU package] ] [ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/net/aiccu/ NetBSD AICCU package] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/ The AICCU Homepage]
* [http://www.sixxs.net/ SixXS Tunnel Broker]

ee also