September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Name
tracepath
Synopsis
tracepath [options]host[port]
TCP/IP command. Trace path to host and report the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU). A simplified version of traceroute without options meant for use by unprivileged users. If specified, it will use port to send UDP probe packets. host is the destination hostname or the IP number of the host to reach.
Options
- -l n
Use alternative packet length of n. The default is 65536 for IPv4 and 128000 for IPv6.
- -n
Don’t look up host names, just print IP addresses.