KAME project

In the KAME project, a consortium of six Japanese organizations developed a free implementation of a protocol stack for IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) for the variants of the BSD operating system.

The project ran from 1998 to 2006 directly. Involved were ALAXALA Networks Corporation, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Internet Initiative Japan, Keio University, NEC Corporation, University of Tokyo, Toshiba and Yokogawa Electric and there was cooperation with the TAHI Project, the USAGI Project and the WIDE Project.

The code can be found almost entirely in FreeBSD and NetBSD and partly in OpenBSD ( IPv6 only ) Code, DragonFly BSD and BSD / OS. Also for the IPSec implementation of Linux code of the KAME project was taken over.

The name KAME is both a short form for Karigome - the name of the location of the offices of the project - as well as a word for turtles.