traceroute
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In computing, traceroute and tracert are diagnostic command-line interface commands for displaying possible routes (paths) and transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol (IP) network.
Key facts
- Software.title
- tracert
- Software.screenshot
- Traceroute screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- The traceroute6 command
- Software.screenshot size
- 250px
- Software.author
- Van Jacobson
- Software.platform
- Windows, ReactOS
- Software.genre
- Command
- Software.developer
- Microsoft, ReactOS Contributors
- Software.license
- Microsoft Windows: Proprietary commercial software ReactOS: GNU General Public License
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- Traceroute screenshot.png
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- Traceroute
- time of discovery or invention
- 1987-00-00
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In computing, traceroute and tracert are diagnostic command-line interface commands for displaying possible routes (paths) and transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol (IP) network.
The command reports the round-trip times of the packets received from each successive host (remote node) along the route to a destination. The sum of the mean times in each hop is a measure of the total time spent to establish the connection. The command aborts if all (usually three) sent packets are lost more than twice.