NAME

Net::SixXS::TIC::Client - Tunnel Information and Control protocol client

SYNOPSIS

use Net::SixXS::TIC::Client;

my $tic = Net::SixXS::TIC::Client->new(username = 'me', password = 'none');
$tic->connect;
say for sort map $_->name, values %{$tic->tunnels};

DESCRIPTION

The Net::SixXS::TIC::Client class provides an interface to the Tunnel Information and Control protocol used by SixXS to configure IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels using the AYIYA (Anything-In-Anything) protocol. A Net:SixXS::TIC::Client object takes care of connecting to the TIC server, authenticating using a challenge/response scheme, then retrieving information about the tunnels managed by the authenticated user account.

ATTRIBUTES

The operation of the Net::SixXS::TIC::Client object is controlled by the following attributes:

username

The username of the account to authenticate with.

password

The password of the account to authenticate with.

server

The hostname or address of the TIC server to connect to; defaults to "tic.sixxs.net".

tic_socket

After the connect() method has been successfully invoked, this is the IO::Socket::INET object representing the connection to the TIC server.

client_name

The text identifier of the TIC client; defaults to "Net-SixXS".

client_version

The text string representing the TIC client's version; defaults to the version of the Net-SixXS distribution.

client_osname

The name of the operating system that the TIC client is running on; defaults to the system name and the release name separated by a slash, e.g. "FreeBSD/11.0-CURRENT".

diag

The Net::SixXS::Diag object to send diagnostic messages to; defaults to the one provided by the diag() function of the Net::SixXS class.

Note that the Net::SixXS::TIC::Client object obtains the default value for diag when it is constructed; thus, a program would usually set the Net::SixXS:diag() logger early, before creating any actual objects from the Net::SixXS hierarchy.

METHODS

The Net::SixXS::TIC::Client class defines the following methods:

connect ()

Connects to the TIC server specified by the server attribute, issues a "client" command identifying the client using the values of the client_name, client_version, and client_osname attributes, then authenticates using an MD5 challenge/response with the username and password attributes. Dies if the connection cannot be established or the authentication fails. On success, sets tic_socket to the new connection.

disconnect ()

If tic_socket is set, breaks a previously established connection.

tunnels ()

Obtains a list of the short identifiers (e.g. "T22928") of the tunnels managed by the authenticated user account. Returns a reference to a hash with the tunnel identifiers as keys and a brief text representation of the tunnel information as values; detailed information is obtained by invoking the tunnel_info() method.

tunnel_info (tunnelid)

Obtains detailed information about the tunnel with the specified identifier and returns a Net::SixXS::Data::Tunnel object.

tic_resp_parse (line)

Internal method; parse a text line received by the TIC server into a status code, a success flag, and a text message.

tic_command (command)

Internal method; issues a command over the connection to the TIC server, reads a possibly multiline response, and dies if the TIC server does not return a success response.

debug (message)

Internal method; sends the message to the object's diag logger if the latter is set.

SEE ALSO

Net::SixXS::Data::Tunnel, Net::SixXS::Diag, Net::SixXS::TIC::Server

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2015 Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>