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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.

mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

mtr-gtk combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

mtr combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool. It’s free and open source software.

Nettool is a tool to diagnose the network and services status. It provides a graphical user interface for a number of common network tools.

Trippy is a network diagnostic tool. It combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and helps in the analysis of networking issues.

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.