Glossary traceroute
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Traceroute
Description
A tracerout permit to see the path taken by the datas from client to the serveur.
So it's possible to see the traversed routeurs to detect eventuals problems.
Usage
A tracerout is generally use to find the origin of ping's problem
Generally these problems are about the peering established by certain ISP or to network issues.
There is many maners to make a traceroute :
Windows :
- with a DOS command :
In the Start menu, click on "run" and tape "cmd". A "dos" windows appear. Just tape :
tracert server_ip
For exemple :
tracert 77.111.206.98
Exemple of traceroute executed with a tracert command :
- with HLSW
You can use HLSW to do a traceroute. The result is indeed a bit more understandable.
Right click on the server (in the serveur list), and select "Trace Route". A new window will open with the results.
Exemple of traceroute realized with the HLSW software :
Linux :
- with traceroute command
- with mtr command
Exemple and Analysis
This is an traceroute exemple. You can see a ping problem of a belgium player.
We can see that the datas transit by England, that is not the shortest path.
To the nineth jump, we see a ping difference of 70ms, it's the location of the problem.
