Traceroute
Method of sending a packet and tracing the packet from its starting to ending location and showing each of the hops required to get to that location. An example of a program capable of doing this is tracert used in Microsoft Windows and other operating systems.
- See the tracert command page for additional further about this command.
- See the Unix / Linux traceroute command page for further information about this command.
Also see: Network definitions, Trace