flood_router26(8)

πŸ’– flood_router26(8) β€” IPv6 era πŸ’–

okay bestie, welcome to the IPv6 section of the manual, because this page is literally called flood_router26(8) and it’s about flooding your local network with router advertisements. no cap 🫢

πŸŽ€ NAME πŸŽ€

flood_router26 β€” that’s the name, periodt πŸ’…

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

flood_router26 [-HFD] [-sSG] [-RPA] interface [target]

literally: Flood the local network with router advertisements. Each packet contains ~25 prefix and route enries β€” yes, enries, not a typo from me 😭.

🌸 Modes 🌸

  • default β€” sends both routing entries and prefix information 🫢
  • -R β€” does only send routing entries, no prefix information ✨
  • -P β€” does only send prefix information, no routing entries πŸ¦‹
  • -A β€” an attack to disable privacy extensions πŸ’€

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -a β€” add a hopbyhop header with router alert πŸŽ€
  • -H β€” add a hopbyhop header to bypass RA guard security πŸ‘‘
  • -f β€” add an atomic fragment header to bypass RA guard security πŸ”₯
  • -D β€” add a large destination header to bypass RA guard security πŸ’₯
  • -F β€” perform full RA guard evasion (disallows all other bypass options) 🚫
  • -s β€” use small lifetimes, resulting in a more devasting impact 😭 (the page spells it devasting, and I’m keeping it fr fr)
  • -S β€” performs a slow start, which can increases the impact 🌱
  • -G β€” gigantic packet of 64kb of prefix/route entries 🐘
  • -m β€” add DHCPv6 managed/other flags to RA πŸ“¬

πŸ’Œ AUTHOR πŸ’Œ

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

  • flood_router26 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
  • www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6

mwah πŸ’‹ β€” signed off by THC, dated 2022-06-19, page flood_router26(8), version 3.8 (iykyk).

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