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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute

traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.

ETR is a MTR-like tool for discovering and analyzing ECMP (Equal-Cost Multi-Path) network routes.

ttl is a network diagnostic tool that goes beyond traceroute: MTU discovery, NAT detection, route flap alerts, IX identification, and more.

OpenTrace is a cross-platform GUI wrapper for NextTrace, a visual routing tool that aims to be lightweight.

NextTrace is a visual routing tool that aims to be lightweight. It’s developed using Golang.

Fastrace is a fast traceroute utility designed for network diagnostics and performance analysis.

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

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

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

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

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

Open Visual Trace Route is a cross-platform visual traceroute tool. It’s written in the Java programming language.

Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath traceroute tool. It’s written in the Go and C++ programming languages.

LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.

We look at Pingnoo, an open-source cross-platform application for analysing and measuring the round trip time (latency) between two hosts.