firewall6(8)

💅 firewall6(8) — the IPv6 manual, bestie 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

firewall6 — that’s the name, and it’s literally the main character of this page. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

firewall6 [-Hu] interface destination port [test-case-no]

Okay so firewall6 performs various ACL bypass attempts to check implementations. It defaults to TCP ports, and option -u switches to UDP. Option -H prints the hop count. For all test cases to work, ICMPv6 ping to the destination must be allowed. 💖

The flags are giving:

• -H — prints the hop count. ✨
• -u — switches to UDP instead of the default TCP ports. 💅

🚨 warning, bestie: for all test cases to work, ICMPv6 ping to the destination must be allowed. no cap. 😭

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

thc-ipv6 was written by van Hauser <vh@thc.org> / THC. The homepage for this toolkit is: https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6. 🦋

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

firewall6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org> www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6

xoxo, THC — 2022-06-19 — firewall6(8) 💋✨