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System Administration Guide, Volume 3

How to Run the Traceroute Utility

    On the command line, type the following command.


    % traceroute destination-hostname

For details of the traceroute utility see the traceroute(1M) man page.

Example--traceroute Utility

The following sample of the traceroute command shows the 7-hop path a packet follows from the host istanbul to the host sanfrancisco along with the times for a packet to traverse each hop.


istanbul% traceroute sanfrancisco
	traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 172.31.86.247 @ le0
	traceroute to sanfrancisco (172.29.64.39), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
	 1  frbldg7c-86 (172.31.86.1)  1.516 ms  1.283 ms  1.362 ms
	 2  bldg1a-001 (172.31.1.211)  2.277 ms  1.773 ms  2.186 ms
	 3  bldg4-bldg1 (172.30.4.42)  1.978 ms  1.986 ms  13.996 ms
	 4  bldg6-bldg4 (172.30.4.49)  2.655 ms  3.042 ms  2.344 ms
	 5  ferbldg11a-001 (172.29.1.236)  2.636 ms  3.432 ms  3.830 ms
	 6  frbldg12b-153 (172.29.153.72)  3.452 ms  3.146 ms  2.962 ms
	 7  sanfrancisco (172.29.64.39)  3.430 ms  3.312 ms  3.451 ms