What Is Trace Route?
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Trace Route is a computer network tool used to map the route that data takes from one computer to another over the Internet. It records the information of each “hop” along the way, meaning each stop a packet of data makes before reaching its destination. The amount of time taken for the packet to make each hop is also measured and logged by Trace Route. This information can be used to track down network issues such as slow speeds or difficulty establishing connections.
Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool used to trace the route of packets from a source computer to a destination computer over an IP network. The tool works by sending a series of ICMP echo request messages to the destination computer, with each successive message having an increased time-to-live field value. As the messages traverse the network, routers along the route will decrement the time-to-live field to zero, sending an ICMP time-exceeded message back to the source computer. Traceroute will then show the successive hops along the route, as well as the round-trip-time it takes for a packet to reach each hop.