alive6(8)

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version 3.8 · 7 versions
, in epel 9

✨ alive6 ✨

okay bestie, welcome to alive6 from section 8 of the manual (the big scary system-admin one) — it's an IPv6 tool from the thc-ipv6 family, and no cap it's giving "who's actually alive out there" energy 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

alive6 [-CFHLMPSdlpvV] [-I srcip6] [-i file] [-o file] [-e opt] [-s
port,..] [-a port,..] [-u port,..] [-T tag] [-W TIME] interface
[unicast-or-multicast-address [remote-router]]

like, that's a lot of little flags, and we're gonna go through them, don't worry 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -i file — check systems from input file 📄 (feed her a list, she'll go through it)
  • -o file — write results to output file ✍️ (so you can keep the receipts)
  • -d — DNS resolve alive IPv6 addresses 🌐 (put names to the addresses, iconic)
  • -M — enumerate hardware addresses (MAC) from input addresses — slow! 🐌 (she said slow with an exclamation mark, so believe her)
  • -C — enumerate common addresses of input networks; say -CC for a large scan 👑 (yes, double the C = bigger scan, that's the whole lore)
  • -4 ipv4/range — test various IPv4 address encodings per network (eg 1.2.3.4/24) 🍓
  • -p — send a ping packet for alive check (this is the default, so like, she's already doing it) 💖
  • -e dst,hop — send an erroneous packet: destination (default) or hop-by-hop 💀
  • -s port,port,.. — TCP-SYN packet to ports for alive check, or literally the string "portscan" 🔥
  • -a port,port,.. — TCP-ACK packet to ports for alive check ✨
  • -u port,port,.. — UDP packet to ports for alive check 🦋
  • -h — to display more command line options and help (-hh for even more options) 😭 (yes she's hiding stuff behind -hh, it's giving secret menu)
also floating around in that synopsis: -F, -H, -L, -P, -S, -l, -v, -V, -I srcip6, -T tag and -W TIME — they're all up in the synopsis, but the manual doesn't spell them out here, so hit up -h / -hh for the full tea ☕

🧚 TARGET ADDRESSES 🧚

Target address on command line or in input file can include ranges in the form of 2001:db8::1-fff or 2001:db8::1-2:0-ffff:0:0-ffff, etc. 🌈

like, ranges within ranges?? the way she does ranges is honestly so extra and I'm obsessed 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

thc-ipv6 was written by van Hauser <vh@thc.org> / THC — actual main character energy fr fr 🫶

The homepage for this toolkit is: https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6 ⭐

alive6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org> www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 — this one's from THC, dated 2022-06-19, and it lives in the manual as alive6(8). go scan something respectfully 🎀✨

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