mtr combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
It investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine.
This is free and open source software.
Website: www.bitwizard.nl/mtr
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Matt Kimball, Roger Wolff and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
mtr is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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