Microsoft DOS tracert command

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About tracert
Availability
Syntax
Examples

About tracert

The tracert command is used to visually see a network packet being sent and received and the amount of hops required for that packet to get to its destination.

Users with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP who need additional information network latency and network loss should also consider using the pathping command.

Availability

The tracert.exe command is an external command that is available in the below Microsoft Operating Systems.

MS-DOS 6.2
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP

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Category:
MS-DOS

Companies:
Microsoft

Related Pages:
Network Card
Operating Systems
Ping

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Syntax

tracert

[-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout] target_name

Options:

-d	Do not resolve addresses to hostnames.
-h maximum_hops	Maximum number of hops to search for target.
-j host-list	Loose source route along host-list.
-w timeout	Wait timeout milliseconds for each reply.

Examples

Below is an example when we used tracert on www.computerhope.com. As you can see in the below example, we had a very short list and time to get to its destination because of the location we are.

tracert computerhope.com

1	169 ms	190 ms	160 ms	slc1-tc.xmission.com [166.70.1.20]
2	159 ms	160 ms	190 ms	cisco0-tc.xmission.com [166.70.1.1]
3	165 ms	189 ms	159 ms	www.computerhope.com [166.70.10.23]

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