--- name: "passive_discovery6" section: "8" platform: "linux" package: "thc-ipv6" version: "3.8-4" release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/passive_discovery6" --- # passive\_discovery6(8) ## NAME **passive\_discovery6** ## SYNOPSIS passive\_discovery6 \[-Ds\] \[-m maxhop\] \[-R prefix\] interface \[script\] ## OPTIONS ``` -D do also dump destination addresses (does not work with -m) -s do only print the addresses, no other output -m maxhop the maximum number of hops a target which is dumped may be away. 0 means local only, the maximum amount to make sense is usually 5 -R prefix exchange the defined prefix with the link local prefix Passivly sniffs the network and dump all client's IPv6 addresses detected. Note that in a switched environment you get better results when additionally starting parasite6, however this will impact the network. If a script name is specified after the interface, it is called with the detected ipv6 address as first and the interface as second option. ``` ## AUTHOR thc-ipv6 was written by van Hauser \ / THC The homepage for this toolkit is: https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6 ## COPYRIGHT passive\_discovery6 3.8 (c) 2020 by van Hauser / THC \ www.github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-ipv6