TRACEROUTE(1) User Commands TRACEROUTE(1)NAME
traceroute - Trace the route to a host
SYNOPSIS
traceroute [OPTION...] HOST
DESCRIPTION
Print the route packets trace to network host.
-M, --type=METHOD
use METHOD (`icmp' or `udp') for traceroute operations
-p, --port=PORT
use destination PORT port (default: 33434)
-q, --tries=NUM
send NUM probe packets per hop (default: 3)
--resolve-hostnames
resolve hostnames
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
AUTHOR
Written by Elian Gidoni.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-inetutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for traceroute is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and traceroute programs are properly installed at
your site, the command
info traceroute
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU inetutils 1.9 December 2011 TRACEROUTE(1)
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PING6(1) User Commands PING6(1)NAME
ping6 - Packets to network hosts
SYNOPSIS
ping6 [OPTION...] HOST ...
DESCRIPTION
Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts.
Options valid for all request types:
-c, --count=NUMBER
stop after sending NUMBER packets
-d, --debug
set the SO_DEBUG option
-i, --interval=NUMBER
wait NUMBER seconds between sending each packet
-n, --numeric
do not resolve host addresses
-r, --ignore-routing
send directly to a host on an attached network
-w, --timeout=N
stop after N seconds
Options valid for --echo requests:
-f, --flood
flood ping (root only)
-l, --preload=NUMBER
send NUMBER packets as fast as possible before falling into normal mode of behavior (root only)
-p, --pattern=PATTERN
fill ICMP packet with given pattern (hex)
-q, --quiet
quiet output
-s, --size=NUMBER
send NUMBER data octets
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
Options marked with (root only) are available only to superuser.
AUTHOR
Written by Jeroen Dekkers.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-inetutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for ping6 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ping6 programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info ping6
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU inetutils 1.9 December 2011 PING6(1)
I understand the concept of traceroute - can anyone explain the output to me e.g. 39ms 39ms 39ms are these the times for each trip it takes? Assuming each machine is pinged 3 times.
and how does the RTT work? Is this the time it takes from one machine to another because it doesn't look like... (6 Replies)
i know this is used in tracking down network problems. the problem is how is it helpful?? what should I look for when using traceroute?? i have looked on the internet but the information given isn't quite helpful as it as the same as the one in the man page.
the question here is, i have a... (6 Replies)
Hello all,
I have configured a virtual interface using ifconfig on HP UX 11.11.
When i try to do traceroute with -i option i get * * * from traceroute.
i use $traceroute -i lan0:1 my-gateway
traceroute to my-gateway (15.70.180.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 * * *
30 * *... (2 Replies)
following is the output from traceroute
traceroute 10.1.11.6
traceroute to 10.1.11.6 (10.1.11.6), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 10.129.1.250 (10.129.1.250) 20.618 ms 0.335 ms 0.271 ms
2 192.0.20.1 (192.0.20.1) 0.694 ms 4.660 ms 0.422 ms
3 192.0.40.1 (192.0.40.1) 0.972 ms 1.917 ms 0.873 ms... (4 Replies)
hello,,
after googling a lot,, i still cannot find the answer to my problem.
i want to do a traceroute or a network debugging of dns lookups from a Mail Server running on DEBIAN LENNY 5.0.
we have 2 routers in our office,, and i want to see through which of the routers the dns lookups are... (3 Replies)
How to check connectivity with an external server if I know the IP.
Please note traceroute is not working for me, as it is saying command not found. (6 Replies)
Hi Colleagues,
Somebody can explain me and send me examples about traceroute, I know is for network but I need anderstand your funcionality.
Thank you for advanced. (2 Replies)
Hi everybody,
I have a perl script that I used to collect traceroute data from some site.
It create output on the text file. The problem is , some site usually timed out when it's being tracerouted. And it show * * * on the line.
Here is the example
hop list to www.example.com
192.168.3.1... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am having some performance issues with my JBOSS application server and have noticed something strange in my traceroute.
Can anyone explain the following output please?
# traceroute 196.10.101.51 8080
traceroute to 196.10.101.51 (196.10.101.51), 30 hops max, 8080 byte packets
... (5 Replies)
I am writing a perl code(windows) to traceroute IP address and to print the output.
I had executed the below code which was taken from cpan modules
#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe
use Net::Traceroute;
$tr = Net::Traceroute->new(host=> "google.com");
if($tr->found) {
my $hops = $tr->hops;
if($hops... (4 Replies)
Dear,
I hope you all will be ok.
I have an issue with Solaris box running on x86 Blade.
I am unable to ping a node neither traceroute. I am able to do traceroute from oce0:6 port which have IP and subnet of same type which oce0:1 has.
details are as follows:
Problem:
root@rinams02:/#... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm on AIX 5.2. I wrote a script that makes a traceroute to a host. The script works fine but each time it using the traceroute command its generate the 2 output lines.
this is the command in my script
traceroute -n -m 5 -w 2 $Host | grep 172 | awk '{print $2}' | tail -1
traceroute... (2 Replies)