passive_discovery6(8)

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version 3.8 · 7 versions
, in epel 9

💖 passive_discovery6(8) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for passive_discovery6, living under the IPv6 section of your man pages. she's a little network sniffer with main character energy and she's about to tell you everything she sees. let's go 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

passive_discovery6 [-Ds] [-m maxhop] [-R prefix] interface [script]

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -D — also dumps destination addresses. heads up though: this does not work with -m, so pick one, you can't have both 💀
  • -s — quiet mode basically: only prints the addresses, no other output. minimal, clean, iconic ✨
  • -m maxhop — sets the maximum number of hops away a target can be and still get dumped. 0 means local only, and the maximum amount that makes sense is usually 5. like, don't be weird about it 🙈
  • -R prefix — exchanges the defined prefix with the link local prefix 🔁

🌸 DESCRIPTION-ish (the vibes) 🌸

so what she does is passively sniff the network and dump all the clients' IPv6 addresses she detects. no cap, she just listens and collects 👑

ngl, in a switched environment you get better results when you additionally start parasite6 — but fr fr, this will impact the network. so like, know what you're doing bestie 😭

and here's the cute part: if you specify a script name after the interface, it gets called with the detected ipv6 address as the first option and the interface as the second option. she's handing your script the receipts 💅

👑 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 🌈

passive_discovery6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was passive_discovery6(8), version 3.8 from 2020, page dated 2022-06-19, brought to you by THC ⭐ stay safe out there, mwah 💋

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