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WARNING: This information has not been updated since October, 1997!
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INDEX ENTRY FOR TRACEROUTE:
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Name: traceroute - Traces the path of IP packets
Version: not mentioned
Author(s): Van Jacobson <van@ee.lbl.gov>
The original version (LBL version) of traceroute was written by:
Van Jacobson <van@ee.lbl.gov>
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
University of California
Berkeley, CA.
Later additions (in the Berkeley version) by:
Manavendra K. Thakur <thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu>
Harvard University
with consolidation and patching by:
Cliff Frost <cliff@berkeley.edu>
University of California
Berkeley, CA.
Ftp source: ftp.cc.berkeley.edu:/pub/traceroute
Description:
The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network hardware,
connected together by gateways. Tracking the route one's packets follow
(or finding the miscreant gateway that's discarding your packets) can be
difficult. Traceroute utilizes the IP protocol `time to live' field and
attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway
along the path to some host.
The only mandatory parameter is the destination host name or IP number.
The default probe datagram length is 38 bytes, but this may be increased
by specifying a packet size (in bytes) after the destination host name.
-- Quoted from the manpage by Van Jacobson in the traceroute
distribution
Advertised architectures: Sun 3, Sun 3x, and Sun 4 running SunOS 4.0.x
Prerequisites: C compiler
