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sping – ping utility with advanced network diagnostics

October 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sping monitors network latency, jitter and packet loss with live graphs, multi-host views, TCP tests and gateway diagnostics.

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ring – ICMP ping utility written in Rust

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ring is a Rust implementation of the familiar ping utility, providing command-line connectivity checks and network response measurements.

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NetSonar – network diagnostics tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

NetSonar is a network diagnostics tool for pinging hosts, managing network interfaces, and discovering local devices/services.

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ETR – ECMP-aware traceroute tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ETR is a traceroute monitor that discovers ECMP paths using parallel TCP or UDP probes, live latency statistics and JSON exports.

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ttl – modern traceroute and network diagnostics tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ttl is a traceroute and network diagnostics tool with live per-hop metrics, ECMP discovery, NAT and MTU checks, and session replay.

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split-ping – identify the direction of packet loss and latency

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

split-ping measures packet loss and latency in each direction between cooperating hosts, with UDP probes and Prometheus metrics.

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OpenTrace – graphical interface for NextTrace

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OpenTrace is a graphical route diagnostic tool for NextTrace with mapped hops, MTR monitoring, custom DNS and multilingual controls.

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NextTrace – visual route tracking CLI tool

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

NextTrace is a network route diagnostic tool with GeoIP, ASN details, MTR monitoring, path MTU testing and multiple probing methods.

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Fastrace – fast traceroute utility

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastrace is a fast traceroute utility with IPv4 and IPv6 probes, adaptive concurrency, latency statistics and JSON or CSV reporting.

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mtr085 – enhanced terminal network route analyser

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr085 extends mtr with Unicode latency histograms, internationalised domain names, translations and additional network address information.

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mtr-gtk – graphical network route diagnostics

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mtr-gtk provides a graphical interface for continuous route tracing, hop-level packet-loss measurements and network latency statistics.

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Echo – graphical utility for pinging network hosts

October 12, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Echo offers a simple GTK interface for checking network connectivity, with configurable ping counts, intervals, timeouts and source addresses.

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mtr – network diagnostic tool combining ping and traceroute

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr combines traceroute and ping with continuous hop monitoring, latency statistics, packet-loss measurements and reporting options.

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hping3 – TCP/IP packet assembler and network analyser

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hping3 creates customised TCP, UDP and ICMP packets for network troubleshooting, firewall testing, port scanning and traceroute analysis.

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GNOME Nettool – graphical network diagnostic utilities

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

GNOME Nettool provides graphical access to ping, traceroute, port scanning, DNS lookups, interface statistics and other network utilities.

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Trippy – network diagnostics combining ping and traceroute

June 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Trippy analyses network routes with continuous ICMP, UDP and TCP probes, hop-level statistics, latency graphs and reporting facilities.

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Open Visual Traceroute – graphical network route analyser

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Open Visual Traceroute maps network hops in 2D and 3D, with Whois lookup, packet sniffing, Gantt views and exportable route diagrams.

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Dublin Traceroute – NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware traceroute tool for examining ECMP paths, with structured exports, reusable libraries and visualisations.

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LFT – multi-protocol traceroute engine

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

LFT is a multi-protocol traceroute tool with TCP, UDP and ICMP probes, IPv6, ECMP discovery, route monitoring and network attribution.

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2ping – bi-directional network latency and packet-loss analysis

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

2ping measures packet loss and latency in both directions using a client-server protocol with three-way pings and state comparison.

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