# ipv6toolkit mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, zypper installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ipv6toolkit in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:ipv6toolkit ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install ipv6toolkit ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install ipv6toolkit ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: ipv6toolkit from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install ipv6toolkit ``` Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ipv6toolkit from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install ipv6toolkit ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ipv6toolkit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ipv6toolkit - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 2.2 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Security assessment and troubleshooting tool for IPv6 - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - addr6 (Alias) - blackhole6 (Alias) - flow6 (Alias) - frag6 (Alias) - icmp6 (Alias) - jumbo6 (Alias) - messi (Alias) - mldq6 (Alias) - na6 (Alias) - ni6 (Alias) - ns6 (Alias) - path6 (Alias) - ra6 (Alias) - rd6 (Alias) - rs6 (Alias) - scan6 (Alias) - script6 (Alias) - tcp6 (Alias) - udp6 (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 2.2 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung ipv6toolkit is Fernando Gont and SI6 Networks' command-line toolkit for IPv6 security assessment and troubleshooting. It bundles packet-crafting, scanning, Neighbor Discovery, Router Advertisement, fragmentation, flow-label, and path-analysis tools aimed at protocol testing rather than general network monitoring. ### Projektgeschichte The manual page describes the SI6 Networks IPv6 Toolkit as a security assessment and troubleshooting toolkit for IPv6 networks and implementations. It lists tools including addr6, frag6, icmp6, na6, ns6, ra6, scan6, tcp6, udp6, and others. The CHANGES.TXT file shows a steady evolution from the 1.4 line into 2.x, including a shared libipv6 library, improved next-hop and source-address selection, support for several BSD and macOS variants, port scanning in scan6, path6 for IPv6 traceroute-style work, script6 helpers, blackhole6, udp6, and Solaris support. The README records that the toolkit builds with make, depends on libpcap, installs tools, configuration data, databases, and manual pages, and has been tested across Linux, BSD, macOS, and OpenSolaris systems. ### Adoptionsgeschichte ipv6toolkit is adopted most visibly by security practitioners, protocol implementers, trainers, and operators who need reproducible IPv6 packets and edge cases. Its packaging in Homebrew and Linux distributions makes that research toolkit available without cloning the source tree. Because many of its tools intentionally exercise attack vectors, malformed traffic, or protocol corner cases, the package lives more in assessment labs, conference demos, and troubleshooting sessions than in always-on production daemons. ### Wie es verwendet wird Users employ ipv6toolkit to generate arbitrary IPv6, ICMPv6, TCP/IPv6, and UDP/IPv6 packets; test fragmentation and jumbogram behavior; assess Neighbor Discovery and Router Advertisement handling; perform IPv6 address scans; and locate blackholes related to extension headers. The package's libpcap dependency and manual-page set are important operational details: the tools need packet-capture privileges and are meant to be run deliberately on test hosts or authorized assessment networks. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren ipv6toolkit is package-nerd significant because it packages a research-grade protocol workbench as many small executables rather than one monolithic scanner. The executable list itself is a tour of IPv6's security-sensitive mechanisms. Its changelog also shows the maintenance burden of portable low-level networking code: routing sockets, Netlink, libpcap timing differences, loopback behavior, endian definitions, and platform-specific builds all matter. ### Zeitleiste - 2011: Manual-page copyright period begins for the SI6 Networks toolkit documentation. - 2015: Manual page records v2.0-era tool coverage and copyright through 2015. - v1.4: libipv6 is introduced to avoid per-tool code replication. - v1.5: Next-hop determination and source-address selection are improved. - v2.0: path6, script6, blackhole6, udp6, Solaris support, and port-scanning improvements arrive. - v2.2: The changelog records consistency fixes and path6/blackhole6 maintenance. ### Related projects - ipv6toolkit relates to SI6 Networks research, libpcap, IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, ICMPv6, Router Advertisement tooling, Netlink, BSD routing sockets, and other network assessment tools such as nmap and traceroute-style utilities. ### Quellen - - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - ipv6toolkit - 2.0+ds.1-2+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ipv6toolkit from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols | http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit/ - Ubuntu apt - ipv6toolkit - 2.0+ds.1-2build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ipv6toolkit from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols | http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit/ - dnf - ipv6toolkit - 2.2-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ipv6toolkit from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Security assessment and troubleshooting tools for IPv6 protocols | https://www.si6networks.com/research/tools/ipv6toolkit/ - zypper - ipv6toolkit - 2.2-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ipv6toolkit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols | https://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit/ ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ipv6toolkit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ipv6toolkit.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph