1 @(#) $Id: README,v 1.9 2000/09/16 05:32:01 leres Exp $ (LBL)
4 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
7 ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/traceroute.tar.gz
9 Traceroute is a system administrators utility to trace the route
10 ip packets from the current system take in getting to some
11 destination system. See the comments at the front of the
12 program for a description of its use.
14 This program uses raw ip sockets and must be run as root (or installed
17 A couple of awk programs to massage the traceroute output are
18 included. "mean.awk" and "median.awk" compute the mean and median time
19 to each hop, respectively. I've found that something like
21 traceroute -q 7 foo.somewhere >t
22 awk -f median.awk t | xgraph
24 can give you a quick picture of the bad spots on a long path (median is
25 usually a better noise filter than mean).
27 Problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, source code
28 contributions, etc., should be sent to the email address
29 "traceroute@ee.lbl.gov".