they essentially do the same – testing the router packages take to a certain destination – meassure time to travel.
apt-get install iputils-tracepath; # to install tracepath on debian8, Tools to trace the network path to a remote host
strangeness under suse12
user@suse12:~> traceroute yahoo.de Absolute path to 'traceroute' is '/usr/sbin/traceroute', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root). user@suse12:~> tracepath yahoo.de Absolute path to 'tracepath' is '/usr/sbin/tracepath', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root). # when specifying the full path - you CAN run it as non-root user... don't ask me why :-D user@suse12:~> /usr/sbin/traceroute yahoo.de
sample output:
user@Debian8:~$ tracepath yahoo.de
1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500
1: 172.20.0.1 0.839ms
1: 172.20.0.1 0.916ms
2: hsi-kbw-37-49-88-1.hsi14.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de 16.580ms
3: 172.30.24.49 11.699ms
4: de-fra01b-rc1-ae57-0.aorta.net 133.043ms asymm 13
5: no reply
6: no reply
7: us-was02a-rd2-ae105-0.aorta.net 125.066ms
8: us-was03a-ri1-ae10-0.aorta.net 130.044ms
9: exchange-cust1.dc2.equinix.net 129.534ms
10: ae-4-0.pat1.nyc.yahoo.com 120.216ms asymm 9
11: ae-0.pat1.bfw.yahoo.com 131.447ms asymm 10
12: unknown-74-6-227-x.yahoo.com 127.309ms asymm 11
13: et-0-1-0.clr2-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com 127.229ms asymm 12
14: no reply
15: no reply
16: no reply
17: no reply
18: no reply
19: no reply
20: no reply
21: no reply
22: no reply
23: no reply
24: no reply
25: no reply
26: no reply
27: no reply
28: no reply
29: no reply
30: no reply
Too many hops: pmtu 1500
Resume: pmtu 1500
user@Debian8:~$ traceroute yahoo.de
traceroute to yahoo.de (74.6.50.24), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 172.20.0.1 (172.20.0.1) 0.588 ms 0.714 ms 0.873 ms
2 hsi-kbw-37-49-88-1.hsi14.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de (37.49.88.1) 13.603 ms 14.626 ms 15.284 ms
3 172.30.24.49 (172.30.24.49) 16.163 ms 16.153 ms 16.143 ms
4 de-fra01b-rc1-ae57-0.aorta.net (84.116.190.105) 131.605 ms 132.731 ms *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * us-was02a-rd2-ae105-0.aorta.net (84.116.130.66) 126.856 ms 130.320 ms
8 us-was03a-ri1-ae10-0.aorta.net (84.116.130.174) 130.888 ms 130.170 ms 131.595 ms
9 exchange-cust1.dc2.equinix.net (206.126.236.16) 132.819 ms 128.698 ms 128.484 ms
10 ae-4-0.pat1.nyc.yahoo.com (216.115.104.121) 118.093 ms 118.831 ms 118.905 ms
11 ae-0.pat1.bfw.yahoo.com (216.115.111.24) 136.820 ms 134.304 ms ae-0.pat2.bfw.yahoo.com (216.115.111.30) 128.335 ms
12 et-18-1-0.msr1.bf1.yahoo.com (74.6.227.47) 123.422 ms unknown-74-6-227-x.yahoo.com (74.6.227.65) 124.525 ms unknown-74-6-227-x.yahoo.com (74.6.227.67) 128.353 ms
13 unknown-74-6-122-x.yahoo.com (74.6.122.59) 129.054 ms unknown-74-6-122-x.yahoo.com (74.6.122.89) 129.494 ms et-0-1-0.clr1-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (74.6.122.13) 126.251 ms
14 po8.fab3-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (72.30.22.37) 126.091 ms po7.fab7-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (72.30.22.13) 144.058 ms po7.fab4-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com (72.30.22.7) 131.725 ms
15 po-13.bas1-10-prd.bf1.yahoo.com (69.147.72.137) 129.346 ms po-12.bas1-10-prd.bf1.yahoo.com (69.147.72.135) 123.492 ms po-14.bas2-10-prd.bf1.yahoo.com (69.147.72.157) 129.487 ms
16 aviate.yahoo.com (74.6.50.24) 128.571 ms 125.641 ms 129.173 ms
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