Traceroute is a TCP/IP protocol-based utility, which allows the user to determine how packets are being routed to a particular host. Traceroute works by increasing the time-to-live value of packets and seeing how far they get until they reach the given destination; thus, a lengthening trail of hosts passed through is built up.
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The Traceroute feature is included in the 'system' package. No installation is needed for this feature
There is no significant resource usage.
Traceroute shows the number of hops to the given host address of every passed gateway. Traceroute utility sends packets three times to each passed gateway so it shows three timeout values for each gateway in ms. The Traceroute session may be stopped when the Ctrl + C is pressed.
[admin@MikroTik] tool> traceroute
Trace route to host by increasing Time To Live value in sent packets and
waiting for "TTL expired" messages from routers.
<address>
port UDP port number
protocol Protocol of sent packets
size Packet size
timeout Response wait timeout
tos Type of service
use-dns
[admin@MikroTik] tool> traceroute
Descriptions of arguments:
address - IP address of the host you are tracing route to
port - UDP Port number. Values are in range 0-65535
protocol - Type of protocol to use (UDP or ICMP). If one fails (for example, it is blocked by a firewall) try the other
size - Packet size in bytes (28..1428, default 64)
timeout - Response waiting timeout, i.e. delay between messages. Can be 1s..5s, default 1s
tos - Type Of Service – parameter of IP packet. Can be 0..255 , default 0
use-dns - specifies whether to use DNS server, which can be set in /ip dns menu (yes, no, default is no)"
[admin@MikroTik] tool> traceroute 216.239.39.101 size=64 timeout=4s tos=0 protocol=icmp
ADDRESS STATUS
1 159.148.60.227 3ms 3ms 3ms
2 195.13.173.221 80ms 169ms 14ms
3 195.13.173.28 6ms 4ms 4ms
4 195.158.240.21 111ms 110ms 110ms
5 213.174.71.49 124ms 120ms 129ms
6 213.174.71.134 139ms 146ms 135ms
7 213.174.70.245 132ms 131ms 136ms
8 213.174.70.58 211ms 215ms 215ms
9 195.158.229.130 225ms 239ms 0s
10 216.32.223.114 283ms 269ms 281ms
11 216.32.132.14 267ms 260ms 266ms
12 209.185.9.102 296ms 296ms 290ms
13 216.109.66.1 288ms 297ms 294ms
14 216.109.66.90 297ms 317ms 319ms
15 216.239.47.66 137ms 136ms 134ms
16 216.239.47.46 135ms 134ms 134ms
17 216.239.39.101 134ms 134ms 135ms
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