1<refentry id="traceroute6"> 2 3<refmeta> 4<refentrytitle>traceroute6</refentrytitle> 5<manvolnum>8</manvolnum> 6<refmiscinfo>iputils-&snapshot;</refmiscinfo> 7</refmeta> 8 9<refnamediv> 10<refname>traceroute6</refname> 11<refpurpose>traces path to a network host</refpurpose> 12</refnamediv> 13 14<refsynopsisdiv> 15<cmdsynopsis> 16<command>traceroute6</command> 17<arg choice="opt"><option>-dnrvV</option></arg> 18<arg choice="opt">-i <replaceable/interface/</arg> 19<arg choice="opt">-m <replaceable/max_ttl/</arg> 20<arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable/port/</arg> 21<arg choice="opt">-q <replaceable/max_probes/</arg> 22<arg choice="opt">-s <replaceable/source/</arg> 23<arg choice="opt">-w <replaceable/wait time/</arg> 24<arg choice="req"><replaceable/destination/</arg> 25<arg choice="opt"><replaceable/size/</arg> 26</cmdsynopsis> 27</refsynopsisdiv> 28 29<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title> 30<para> 31Description can be found in 32<citerefentry><refentrytitle/traceroute/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>, 33all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is needless to copy 34the description from there. 35</para> 36</refsect1> 37 38<refsect1><title>SEE ALSO</title> 39<para> 40<citerefentry><refentrytitle/traceroute/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>, 41<citerefentry><refentrytitle/tracepath/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>, 42<citerefentry><refentrytitle/ping/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>. 43</para> 44</refsect1> 45 46<refsect1><title>HISTORY</title> 47<para> 48This program has long history. Author of <command/traceroute/ 49is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is 50based on a port of <command/traceroute/ to IPv6 published 51in NRL IPv6 distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported 52to Linux by Pedro Roque. After this it was kept in sync by 53<ulink url="mailto:kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru">Alexey Kuznetsov 54<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru></ulink>. And eventually entered 55<command/iputils/ package. 56</para> 57</refsect1> 58 59<refsect1><title>SECURITY</title> 60<para> 61<command/tracepath6/ requires <constant/CAP_NET_RAWIO/ capability 62to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root. 63</para> 64</refsect1> 65 66<refsect1><title>AVAILABILITY</title> 67<para> 68<command/traceroute6/ is part of <filename/iputils/ package 69and the latest versions are available in source form for anonymous ftp 70<ulink url="ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/iputils-current.tar.gz"> 71ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/iputils-current.tar.gz</ulink>. 72</para> 73</refsect1> 74 75<![IGNORE[ 76<refsect1><title>COPYING</title> 77<para> 78<literallayout> 79This documentation is free software; you can redistribute 80it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public 81License Version 2. 82 83This program is distributed in the hope that it will be 84useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 85warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 86See the GNU General Public License for more details. 87 88For more details see the file COPYING in the source 89distribution of Linux kernel of version 2.4. 90</literallayout> 91</para> 92</refsect1> 93]]> 94 95 96 97</refentry> 98