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traceroute is a network diagnostic tool that displays the path that a packet takes in going from an initial IP address to final one. It also measures length of time that it takes the packets to hop from one IP address to another as it goes from the initial IP address to the final one.

traceroute is a network diagnostic tool that displays the path that a packet takes in going from an initial IP address to final one. It also measures length of time that it takes the packets to hop from one IP address to another as it goes from the initial IP address to the final one.

For more information, see the following:

  1. the wiki entry;
  2. the free BSD manual page.
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How to install traceroute in Linux?

I am currently taking a Controlled Assessment, and this is one of the tasks. Make sure that you have the program traceroute installed. (Install it if necessary.) I went on…
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What is the difference between traceroute and mtr?

I was working with someone on a project and I noticed they were using mtr (My Trace Route) instead of traceroute, is there some advantage to this? Why would they use that other tool instead?
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Traceroute and mtr command are not working

grace@DESKTOP-PTDHEDF:~$ sudo traceroute -m3 8.8.8.8 traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 3 hops max 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * Tried the following steps but the result still the same. sudo apt-get install inetutils-traceroute sudo apt…
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Why is there a limit of 10 in the -q argument of traceroute?

The -q argument of traceroute sets the number of probes to be used. On Linux systems it seems that this can only be up to 10. If a higher value is used traceroute returns. no more than 10 probes per hop On a solaris box the same parameter is…
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how to install traceroute

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done net-tools is already the newest version (1.60-26ubuntu1). The following NEW packages will be installed: traceroute 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to…
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