MyTraceRoute

Installation could not be simpler. Perform the following steps for installing MyTraceRoute:

1. Change to the /usr/src/ directory and then type:

   wget https://launchpad.net/mtr/main/0.85/+download/mtr-0.85.tar.gz
   

   This will download the gzip tar ball to the user source directory.

2. Then, unzip the file into the directory using the following command:

   tar -zxvf mtr-0.85.tar.gz.
   

3. Change to the directory that was created when the files were unzipped in the preceding step and type the following commands:

   ./configure
   make
   make install
   

   That's it. You are done.

Note

File locations can be a moving target so if the preceding wget command doesn't work, a Google search should provide another location. The command is the same, but with a different web address.

Trace route examples

Here, we have a couple of examples of the software at work. This example shows the route from my lab computer to the Yahoo! site:

Route to Yahoo!

In this example, 192.168.10.1 is the Internet gateway on my system's router. Lines...