ip6sic (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

ip6sic – flood a node with IPv6 frames in an attempt to cause great havoc

SYNOPSIS

ip6sic [-bDhHtv] [-i intf] [-d dst addr] [-s src addr] [-e num hdrs] [-p num pkts] [-r seed] [-w pcap file] [-y max payload] [-f fragment pct] [-T TCP pct] [-U UDP pct] [-I ICMP pct] [-c checksum pct] [-4 IPv4 tunnel pct] [-6 IPv6 tunnel pct]

DESCRIPTION

ip6sic sends IPv6 network traffic according to the options supplied on the command line. It supports tunneling, tcp, udp, and icmp payloads, fragments, and checksumming.

-h

Show help information.

-D

Enable debugging.

-v

Show the version.

-b

Don’t show the progress indicator.

-H

Dump each packet in hex after sending it (useful for debugging).

-t

Dump each packet in the tcpdump-style interpreted format to stdout. (requires libtcpdump) Note: All other text is printed to stderr, which allows one to redirect the tcpdump-style output separately.

-s src addr

Set the source IPv6 address. If a domain name is given, ip6sic will use getaddrinfo to resolve it to an IPv6 address. If no IPv6 address is found, it will create an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address. Random addresses, the default, can be specified withand.

-d dst addr

Set the destination IPv6 address. If a domain name is given, ip6sic will use getaddrinfo to resolve it to an IPv6 address. If no IPv6 address is found, it will create an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address. Random addresses, the default, can be specified withand.

-i intf

Set the outgoing interface.

-p num pkts

Set the number of packets ip6sic will create and send. if this option is not given, or -1 is given, ip6sic will send an infinite amount of packets.

-r seed

Set the randomization seed. This is useful for duplicating runs.

-w pcap file

Save every packet created to
cap file using libpcap. Note that this does not stop ip6sic from writing packets to the wire.

-y max payload

Set the maximum number of bytes in the payload, including the ethernet header. This is useful the the specified interface has a non-standard MTU.

-f percent

Set the percentage of packets which should have an IPv6 fragment header. The value given should be between 0 and 100. If 100 is specified, then all packets created will have an IPv6 fragment header.

-T percent

Set the percentage of packets with a random TCP payload.

-U percent

Set the percentage of packets with a random UDP payload.

-I percent

Set the percentage of packets with a random ICMPv6 payload. Note that this will be an (IPv4) ICMP payload if -4 is specified.

-c percent

Set the percentage of packets which will have a valid TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IP checksum.

-4 percent

Set the percentage of packets to have an IPv4 header following the initial IPv6 header. The IPv6 header’s ‘nxt’ byte will be set to IPPROTO_IPIP (for IP tunneling). Higher layer header options can also be specifed in conjunction with this option.

-6 percent

Set the percentage of packets to have an IPv6 header following the initial IPv6 header. The IPv6 header’s ‘nxt’ byte will be set to IPPROTO_IPV6 (for IPv6 tunneling). Higher layer header options can also be specifed in conjunction with this option.

SEE ALSO

isic – the IP Stack Integrity Checker libdnet – a cross-platform networking library

AUTHOR

Greg Taleck, taleck [at] oz.net

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