December 2018
Beginner
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This command is used to display or inspect the network path taken to reach the destination by a packet. It is quite useful in troubleshooting network delays and errors.
By default, the traceroute and tracepath commands use UDP packets for probing the path to a destination. The traceroute command has options to inspect the path using ICMP (-I) or TCP (-T) packets, if IDS or IPS blocks the UDP traffic.
Following is an example to illustrate the usage of traceroute command:

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