1@(#) $Id: README,v 1.9 2000/09/16 05:32:01 leres Exp $ (LBL) 2 3TRACEROUTE 1.4 4Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5Network Research Group 6traceroute@ee.lbl.gov 7ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/traceroute.tar.gz 8 9Traceroute is a system administrators utility to trace the route 10ip packets from the current system take in getting to some 11destination system. See the comments at the front of the 12program for a description of its use. 13 14This program uses raw ip sockets and must be run as root (or installed 15setuid to root). 16 17A couple of awk programs to massage the traceroute output are 18included. "mean.awk" and "median.awk" compute the mean and median time 19to each hop, respectively. I've found that something like 20 21 traceroute -q 7 foo.somewhere >t 22 awk -f median.awk t | xgraph 23 24can give you a quick picture of the bad spots on a long path (median is 25usually a better noise filter than mean). 26 27Problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, source code 28contributions, etc., should be sent to the email address 29"traceroute@ee.lbl.gov". 30