trace6(8)

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version 3.8 · 7 versions
, in epel 9

🦋 trace6(8) — IPv6 traceroute, but make it fashion 🦋

Okay bestie, welcome to trace6(8), the IPv6 manual page that’s about to make tracerouting feel like main character energy. It’s a basic but very fast traceroute6 program, and we’re gonna read every single option together. No skipping, no cap 💅

💖 NAME 💖

trace6 — that’s the whole name, and honestly? Iconic brevity.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

trace6 [-abdtu] [-s src6] interface targetaddress [port]

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -a — insert a hop-by-hop header with router alert option. Little header, big “notice me” vibe.
  • -D — insert a destination extension header.
  • -E — insert a destination extension header with an invalid option. Messy on purpose, bestie.
  • -F — insert a one-shot fragmentation header.
  • -b — instead of an ICMP6 Ping, use TooBig (you will not see the target). So dramatic, so unreachable.
  • -B — instead of an ICMP6 Ping, use PingReply (you will not see the target). Same mystery-energy, different packet.
  • -d — resolves the IPv6 addresses to DNS. Give those addresses their government names.
  • -t — enables tunnel detection.
  • -u — use UDP instead of TCP if a port is supplied.
  • -r — raw mode (for adapters networks that have no ethernet).
  • -s src6 — specifies the source IPv6 address.

Maximum hop reach: 31 🌈

A basic but very fast traceroute6 program. If no port is specified, ICMP6 Ping requests are used, otherwise TCP SYN packets to the specified port. Options -D, -E and -F can be used multiple times. Obsessed with the flexibility, honestly 🫶

👑 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

trace6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6

Bye bestie — this page is THC’s trace6 version 3.8, dated 2022-06-19, and it’s still serving section 8 realness 💅💖

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