---
name: "kill_router6"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "thc-ipv6"
version: "3.8-4"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kill_router6"
---

# kill\_router6(8)

## NAME

**kill\_router6**

## SYNOPSIS

kill\_router6 \[-HFD\] interface router-address \[srcmac \[dstmac\]\]

Announce that a target a router going down to delete it from the routing tables. If you supply a '\*' as router-address, this tool will sniff the network for any RA packet and immediately send the kill packet. Option -H adds hop-by-hop, -F fragmentation header and -D dst header.

## 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

## COPYRIGHT

kill\_router6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC \<vh@thc.org\> www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6