On the command line, type the following command.
% traceroute destination-hostname |
For details of the traceroute utility, see the traceroute(1M) man page.
The following sample of the traceroute command shows the seven–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 |