Changes to Network Utilities

This section describes the network utilities that are new in version 5.0 of the ChorusOS operating system.

traceroute

The traceroute utility tracks and prints the route that packets follow to the network host. It uses the IP protocol time to live field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to a host.

For more information on the implementation of the traceroute utility, see the traceroute(1M) man page.

tcpdump

The tcpdump utility displays the headers of packets on a network interface that match a specified boolean expression.

For more information on this utility, see the tcpdump(1M) man page.