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@(#) $Header: README,v 1.7 96/07/06 02:08:32 leres Exp $ (LBL)
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TRACEROUTE 1.3
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Network Research Group
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traceroute@ee.lbl.gov
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ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/traceroute.tar.Z
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Traceroute is a system administrators utility to trace the route
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ip packets from the current system take in getting to some
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destination system. See the comments at the front of the
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program for a description of its use.
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This program uses raw ip sockets and must be run as root (or installed
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setuid to root).
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A couple of awk programs to massage the traceroute output are
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included. "mean.awk" and "median.awk" compute the mean and median time
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to each hop, respectively. I've found that something like
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traceroute -q 7 foo.somewhere >t
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awk -f median.awk t | graph
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can give you a quick picture of the bad spots on a long path (median is
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usually a better noise filter than mean).
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Problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, source code
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contributions, etc., should be sent to the email address
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"traceroute@ee.lbl.gov".
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