Telsey telecommunications
Command Line Interface
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MT500--SIEN12
TRACEROUTE
NAME:
traceroute
- print the route packets take to network host
SYNOPSIS:
traceroute [-dnrv] [-m max_ttl] [-p port#] [-q nqueries] [-
s src_addr] [-t tos] [-w wait] host [data size]
DESCRIPTION:
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.
COMMANDS:
None.
OPTIONS:
-d
set SO_DEBUG options to socket
-n
Print hop addresses numerically rather than symbolically
-r
Bypass the normal routing tables and send directly to a host
-v
Verbose output
-m max_ttl
Set the max time-to-live (max number of hops)
-p port#
Set the base UDP port number used in probes (default is 33434)
-q nqueries
Set the number of probes per ‘’ttl’’ to nqueries (default is 3)
-s src_addr
Use the following IP address as the source address
-t tos
Set the type-of-service in probe packets to the following value (default 0)
-w wait
Set the time (in seconds) to wait for a response to a probe (default 3
sec.).
EXAMPLES:
Trace the route to www.yahoo.com
traceroute www.yahoo.com