Use the traceroute command as follows to discover the route to a remote system:
% traceroute destination-hostname
The following output from the traceroute command shows the seven–hop path that a packet follows from the local system nearhost to the remote system farhost. The output also shows the time that it takes a packet to traverse each hop.
% traceroute farhost traceroute to farhost (172.16.64.39), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 frbldg7c-86 (172.16.86.1) 1.516 ms 1.283 ms 1.362 ms 2 bldg1a-001 (172.16.1.211) 2.277 ms 1.773 ms 2.186 ms 3 bldg4-bldg1 (172.16.4.42) 1.978 ms 1.986 ms 13.996 ms 4 bldg6-bldg4 (172.16.4.49) 2.655 ms 3.042 ms 2.344 ms 5 ferbldg11a-001 (172.16.1.236) 2.636 ms 3.432 ms 3.830 ms 6 frbldg12b-153 (172.16.153.72) 3.452 ms 3.146 ms 2.962 ms 7 farhost (172.16.64.39) 3.430 ms 3.312 ms 3.451 ms