MTR
MTR stands for Matt's Traceroute or My Traceroute depending on who you talk to. I prefer the first because it gives credit to the original author of the tool. MTR was originally authored by Matt Kimball. Many developers have contributed to the design and functionality since its creation. Roger Wolff now maintains the distribution. You can find MTR on the Internet at http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/.
MTR combines the functionality of both the traceroute and the PING tools. As each hop in the path between the host that MTR is executed from and the destination host that you specify is discovered, a series of ICMP ECHO_REQUESTS are sent to monitor the health of the link between the originating workstation and that gateway. The tool displays ...
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