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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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What are the significant differences between tracepath and traceroute?

I recently read a bit of an article on HowToGeek that has me scratching my head a little. I've got fairly little experience with Linux though, so forgive me if this is entry-level: "The tracepath command is similar to traceroute, but it doesn’t…
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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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How to run the traceroute command in linux?

My GCSE coursework in linux is asking me to do this: Whenever I attempt it it says this: So do I just need to install the packages and it will work?
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Graphical Traceroute with Map from Repository

It seems like xt (xtraceroute) has been dropped from the repository, does anyone know of another graphical traceroute program in the main repos which draws maps? If not, then a loose deb package will do, or a PPA.
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OpenVPN - Linux client could not access internet, routing issue

I installed OpenVPN server quite a while a go with the gateway option that all internet traffic get routed through. It works fine for client machine like Windows and my Android phone, but same Open VPN client config on my Ubuntu notebook seems not…
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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 is not installing on ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I tried to use traceroute for my networking project. But whenever I tried to install traceroute it shows that Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run…
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Routing tables - Default gateway and traceroute discrepancy

I'm using 16.04 and having a discrepancy that appears to be slowing down the internet access for my machine. I'm on a PC and connecting to internet using a USB WIFI device instead of the ethernet port present on the motherboard. IP address of my…
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What is the difference between Pinging loopback address and pinging the system's IP address?

What I found was loopback tests whether the TCP/IP suite of our system is working properly or not and pinging our IP makes sure that NIC is working fine. This is okay but I wish to know its working with respect to OSI reference model i.e., what are…
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Newer versions of traceroute have limited functionality

Running traceroute 1.9.4 on 8.8.8.8 shows traceroute -m 30 -q 1 -w 3 -A 8.8.8.8 traceroute: invalid option -- 'A' Try 'traceroute --help' or 'traceroute --usage' for more information. However the same command from the stanford website shows a lot…
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Multi gateway routing in ubuntu

I want to setup Multi gateway on my Ubuntu Machine. 1 for ethernet and another for USB tethering. After browsing, from the below reference https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Two_Default_Gateways_on_One_System I have configured my system according…
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Can't ping my own local machine by IP address?

I have an Ubuntu machine named ci-server, with wired connection and fixed IP address of 192.168.0.214. When I ping by IP I get the following output: administrator@ci-server:~$ ping 192.168.0.214 PING 192.168.0.214 (192.168.0.214) 56(84) bytes of…
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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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traceroute is not showing ip's instead it showing stars

I have installed traceroute in my ubuntu 18.04. Now when I want to trace a website's ip route then in the first line it shows a ip (may be my ip address) but in the fext following address it prints only stars instead of ip address. But it works fine…
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tracepath and too many hops on ubuntu 16.04.1

I have got three Ubuntu servers (virtual) running in cloud, they all are sitting in the same virtual LAN and configured with similar specs. However when I run tracepath on those three hosts to a specific target host, one of them comes out with…
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