ping6(1)

💖 ping6(1) — like, the manual page but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is ping6, from the User's Reference Manual (section 1, if you're keeping track 🎀). she's the IPv6 girlie of the ping family and she is so iconic for it.

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✨ NAME ✨

ping6 — send ICMP6 ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts 🌸

like. she pings. but for ICMP6. no cap.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ping6 [option ...] host ...

yeah that's it, that's the whole vibe. options first, then as many hosts as you want to yell at. 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Send ICMP6 ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts and report the replies received.

that's the entire assignment, and she ate. you fire echo requests out into the void, and then she reports the replies received back to you, like a bestie who actually texts back. 💖

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

every single one, bestie, we're not skipping a thing:

• -c, --count total — stop after sending the total number of packets. like "okay that's enough, we're done here."
• -i, --interval pause — wait for pause seconds between sending each packet. patience, queen. ⏳
• -w, --timeout end — stop after end seconds. hard cutoff, no negotiating.
• -n, --numeric — do not resolve host addresses. no DNS glow-up, just numbers. 🔢
• --hoplimit limit — sets the hop limit. that's it, that's the whole line. ✨
• --ttl limit — set the maximum allowed number of hops to limit. same energy, different name.
• -r, --ignore-routing — send directly to a host on an attached network. skipping the routing middleman fr fr.
• -T, --tos class — set the traffic class. giving your packets a lil label 🏷️
• -f, --flood — flood ping (root only). she's fast, she's loud, she needs permission. 🔥
• -l, --preload initial — send an initial number of packets as fast as possible before falling into normal mode of behavior (root only). a lil sprint before the jog 🏃‍♀️
• -p, --pattern pattern — fill ICMP6 packets with the given pattern (hex). custom filler, aesthetic choices only 🎨
• -s, --size octets — send the number of data octets in each packet. size matters, allegedly.
• -v, --verbose — verbose output. she tells you everything. 💬
• -q, --quiet — quiet output. she tells you nothing. 🤫
• -d, --debug — set the SO_DEBUG option. for when you gotta see what's going on under the hood.
• -?, --help — give this help list. hi, help list! 👋
• --usage — give a short usage message. the tl;dr version.
• -V, --version — print program version. ✨

bestie listen: options marked with (root only) are available only to the superuser. so if you're not root, those two are not for you, no matter how much you want them. 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

there is literally no SEE ALSO section in this one, so go touch grass or ping something, i don't make the rules 🧚

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that's the whole page, you're welcome, mwah 💅

this was GNU Network Utilities, dated February 9, 2019, signing off 🫶✨ go send some packets, bestie.