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5 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
8 ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/traceroute.tar.Z
10 Traceroute is a system administrators utility to trace the route
11 ip packets from the current system take in getting to some
12 destination system. See the comments at the front of the
13 program for a description of its use.
15 This program uses raw ip sockets and must be run as root (or installed
18 A couple of awk programs to massage the traceroute output are
19 included. "mean.awk" and "median.awk" compute the mean and median time
20 to each hop, respectively. I've found that something like
22 traceroute -q 7 foo.somewhere >t
23 awk -f median.awk t | xgraph
25 can give you a quick picture of the bad spots on a long path (median is
26 usually a better noise filter than mean).
28 Problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, source code
29 contributions, etc., should be sent to the email address
30 "traceroute@ee.lbl.gov".