Skip to content

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Tag: traceroute

Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

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

Read more

ETR – ECMP traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

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

Read more

ttl – modern traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

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

Read more
Selection of utilities

OpenTrace – GUI wrapper for NextTrace

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

Read more
Selection of utilities

NextTrace – visual route tracking CLI tool

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
Selection of utilities

Fastrace – traceroute utility

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
Selection of utilities

mtr085 – full screen ncurses traceroute tool

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
Selection of utilities

mtr-gtk – network diagnostic tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

Read more
Documentation

mtr – network diagnostic tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
Security

GNOME Nettool – GNOME interface for various networking tools

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Security

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

Read more
Documentation

Trippy – network diagnostic tool

June 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
Documentation

Open Visual Trace Route – visual traceroute tool

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
Documentation

Dublin Traceroute – NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
Documentation

Layer Four Traceroute – multi-protocol traceroute engine

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

Read more
System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Pingnoo – traceroute/ping analyser

October 15, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

Read more

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on Benchmarking the Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer
  • Chris on Benchmarking the Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer
  • P S on Transistor – GUI internet radio player
  • Erik Karlsson on DESERT OS Linux – Ukrainian desktop Linux distribution
  • anon on DESERT OS Linux – Ukrainian desktop Linux distribution
  • Steve Emms on mokii – ls replacement
  • Steve Emms on Transistor – GUI internet radio player
  • Oban on Transistor – GUI internet radio player
  • Steve Emms on mokii – ls replacement
  • joemaro on mokii – ls replacement

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS – Intel
Orange Pi 6 Plus (ARM)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Other SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • Modular Font Editor K – modular font editor
  • 7 Best Free and Open Source Dynamic Window Managers
  • Lixplore-cli – Academic literature search & export CLI tool
  • 6 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention
  • retype – typing practice
  • 3 Best Free and Open Source CoffeeScript Static Site Generators
  • ConfigServer Security & Firewall – front-end to iptables or nftables
  • lsplug – replacement for lsusb
  • mp3rgain – lossless MP3 volume adjustment
  • scss-lint – keep SCSS files clean and readable

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.