command: traceroute
usage: print the route packets trace to network host
examples:
1. To find the network path from your localhost to ilugc.in
$ traceroute ilugc.in
2. To disable hostname mapping in traceroute
$ traceroute ilugc.in -n
3. To set the number of seconds to 0.2 seconds wait for
response to a probe (default is 5.0). non-integer (float point)
values allowed too
$ traceroute ilugc.in -w 0.2
4. To print help info of this command
$ traceroute --help
5. To set the number of probes per each hop to 5. default is 3
$ traceroute ilugc.in -q 5
6. To start from the first_ttl hop (instead from 1)
$ traceroute ilugc.in -f 5
regards,
dhanasekar