kill_router6(8)

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version 3.8 · 7 versions
, in epel 9

💅 kill_router6(8): the IPv6 manual page that says bye to routers 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

kill_router6 — that's the name, bestie. The tool is literally called kill_router6.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kill_router6 [-HFD] interface router-address [srcmac [dstmac]]

Okay so here's the plot: kill_router6 announces that a target router is going down, so it gets deleted from the routing tables. You hand it an interface, a router-address, and optionally srcmac and dstmac.

If you supply a '*' as router-address, this tool will sniff the network for any RA packet and immediately send the kill packet. not me being dramatic, that's just what it does 💅

The flags are giving tiny but mighty:

  • -H — adds hop-by-hop.
  • -F — adds fragmentation header.
  • -D — adds dst header.
🫶 lowkey important: those flags are exactly -H, -F, and -D — no cap, no renaming, no extra lore.

🫶 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

kill_router6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>

www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6

🌈 cute sign-off: this page is from THC, dated 2022-06-19, and it's the kill_router6(8) manual. bye bestie, go delete a router from the routing tables 💖✨
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