Chapter 20
Checking Status and Connectivity
Executing IP Traceroute
To trace the path that packets take through the network, perform this task in privileged mode:
Task
Execute IP traceroute to trace the path that
packets take through the network.
This example shows the basic usage of the traceroute command:
Console> (enable) traceroute 10.1.1.100
traceroute to 10.1.1.100 (10.1.1.100), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1)
2 10.1.1.100 (10.1.1.100)
Console> (enable)
This example shows how to perform a traceroute with six queries to each hop with packets of 1400 bytes
each:
Console> (enable) traceroute -q 6 10.1.1.100 1400
traceroute to 10.1.1.100 (10.1.1.100), 30 hops max, 1440 byte packets
1 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1)
2 10.1.1.100 (10.1.1.100)
Console> (enable)
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Command
traceroute [-n] [-w wait_time] [-i initial_ttl] [-m
max_ttl] [-p dest_port] [-q nqueries] [-t tos] host
[data_size]
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Using IP Traceroute
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