tracert : Java Glossary

tracert
A utility similar to ping to help track down Internet problems. It shows you the various hops you packets take to get to their destination, and the range of times to negotiate each hop.

To use tracert to check a 120 km (74.56 miles) Internet link from Victoria BC to mindprod.com in Vancouver BC, at the command line type:

tracert mindprod.com
Tracing route to mindprod.com [65.110.21.43]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
hop low average high node IP (Internet Protocol)
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router 192.168.0.1
2 10 ms 11 ms 21 ms gateway 24.68.232.1
3 11 ms 9 ms 12 ms rd1cv-ge3-1-2.gv.shawcable.net 64.59.166.98
4 13 ms 14 ms 16 ms rc2bb-pos0-1-5-0.vc.shawcable.net 66.163.77.185
5 16 ms 15 ms 20 ms rc2wh-tge0-15-1-0.vc.shawcable.net 66.163.69.121
6 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms pix-gw.data-fortress.com 206.223.127.5
7 78 ms 33 ms 15 ms a.cust.65-110-0-2.van.data-fortress.com 65.110.0.2
8 40 ms 18 ms 59 ms mindprod.com 65.110.21.43
Trace complete.

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http://mindprod.com/jgloss/tracert.html J:\mindprod\jgloss\tracert.html
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