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- This is a new modern implementation of the traceroute(8)
- utility for Linux systems.
-
- Traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their
- way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to live (TTL)
- field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each
- gateway along the path to the host.
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- Main features:
- - Full support for both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols
- - Several tracerouting methods, including:
- * UDP datagrams (including udplite and udp to particlular port)
- * ICMP ECHO packets
- * TCP SYNs (in general, any TCP request with various flags and options)
- * Generic IP datagrams
- - UDP methods do not require root privileges
- - Ability to send several probe packets at a time
- - perform AS path lookups for returned addresses
- - show ICMP extensions, including MPLS
- - perform path MTU discovery automatically
- - show guessed number of hops in backward direction
- - command line compatible with the original traceroute
- - and much more, see traceroute(8)
-
- This code was written from the scratch, using some ideas of
- Olaf Kirch's traceroute, the original implementation of Van Jacobson
- (which was long used before) and some current BSD's ones.
-
- This traceroute requires Linux kernel 2.6 and higher.
-
- You can try to contact the author at <Dmitry at Butskoy dot name> .
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- Good tracerouting!
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- Dmitry Butskoy
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