Traceroute; General Information - MikroTik RouterOS v2.9 Reference Manual

Traceroute

Document revision 1.8 (Fri Nov 26 13:00:20 GMT 2004)
This document applies to MikroTik RouterOS V2.9
Table of Contents
Table of Contents

General Information

Summary
Specifications
Related Documents
Description
The Traceroute Command
Property Description
Notes
Example
General Information
Summary
Traceroute determines how packets are being routed to a particular host.
Specifications
Packages required: system
License required: level1
Home menu level: /tool
Standards and Technologies:
Hardware usage: Not significant
Related Documents
• Software Package Management
• IP Addresses and ARP
• Firewall Filters
• Ping
Description
Traceroute is a TCP/IP protocol-based utility, which allows user to determine how packets are
being routed to a particular host. Traceroute works by increasing the time-to-live value of packets
and seeing how far they get until they reach the given destination; thus, a lengthening trail of hosts
passed through is built up.
Traceroute shows the number of hops to the given host address of every passed gateway. Traceroute
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