fake_solicitate6(8)

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version 3.8 · 7 versions
, in epel 9

🦋 NAME 🦋

fake_solicitate6 — like, this is the page for the fake_solicitate6 tool from the thc-ipv6 fam, and it lives in section 8 of the manual (the IPv6 corner of it, specifically) 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so here's the whole vibe, literally copy-pasted energy:

fake_solicitate6 [-DHF] interface ip-address-solicitated [target-address
[mac-address-solicitated [source-ip-address]]]

And the one-liner that explains what it does, straight up:

Solicate IPv6 address on the network, sending it to the all-nodes multicast address

(Yes bestie, it says "solicitate" — that's the actual spelling on the page, we don't correct the original, we respect the original 🫶)

🌸 THE ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • interface — the network interface you're doing this on, the main character of the whole operation 🎀
  • ip-address-solicitated — the IPv6 address being solicited. Required, no cap.
  • target-address — optional extra, in square brackets [target-address] so you know it's a maybe ✨
  • mac-address-solicitated — also optional, and nested even deeper in the brackets: [mac-address-solicitated [source-ip-address]] 💖
  • source-ip-address — the innermost optional one, sitting inside mac-address-solicitated's brackets like the little cherry on top 🍓

💀 ABOUT THAT -DHF 💀

The synopsis shows [-DHF] — three flags, bundled together, all optional. And like… the page does not tell you what -D, -H, or -F do. Not one word. So I'm not gonna make stuff up and pretend I know, because that's not the move 🙈 They're up there in the synopsis, that's the canon, and if you need the deets you go ask the source itself, iykyk.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

thc-ipv6 was written by van Hauser <vh@thc.org> / THC — absolute icon behaviour, honestly 🌈

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

fake_solicitate6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6

So that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and extremely to the point 💜 And a cute little sign-off from the footer: this gem is brought to you by THC, dated 2022-06-19, and it's fake_solicitate6(8) if you need to look it up again later 🧚‍♀️✨

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