System Management Commands

The traceroute command sends out one probe at a time. Each outgoing packet may result in one or two error messages. A "time exceeded" error message indicates that an intermediate device has seen and discarded the probe. A "destination unreachable" error message indicates that the destination node has received the probe and discarded it because it could not deliver the packet. If the timer goes off before a response comes in, the

traceroute command prints an asterisk (*).

The traceroute command terminates when the destination responds, when the maximum TTL is exceeded or when the user interrupts the trace by pressing Esc.

Example

The following example discovers the routes that packets will actually take when traveling to their destination.

Console> traceroute umaxp1.physics.lsa.umich.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type Esc to abort.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracing the route to umaxp1.physics.lsa.umich.edu

(141.211.101.64)

 

1

i2-gateway.stanford.edu (192.68.191.83)

0

msec

0 msec 0 msec

 

 

2

STAN.POS.calren2.NET (171.64.1.213) 0 msec

0 msec

0

msec

 

 

 

 

3

SUNV--STAN.POS.calren2.net (198.32.249.73)

1 msec

1

msec 1 msec

 

4

Abilene--QSV.POS.calren2.net (198.32.249.162)

1 msec 1

msec

1 msec

5

kscyng-snvang.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.103)

33

 

msec

35

msec

35 msec

6

iplsng-kscyng.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.80)

47

 

msec

45

msec

45 msec

7

so-0-2-0x1.aa1.mich.net (192.122.183.9)

56 msec

53 msec 54

msec

8

atm1-0x24.michnet8.mich.net (198.108.23.82) 56

msec 56

msec

57

msec

9

* * *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 A-ARB3-LSA-NG.c-SEB.umnet.umich.edu (141.211.5.22)

58 msec 58 msec 58 msec

11 umaxp1.physics.lsa.umich.edu (141.211.101.64)

62

 

msec

63

msec

63 msec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following table describes significant fields shown above.

Field

Description

 

 

1

Indicates the sequence number of the device in the path to the host.

 

 

i2-gateway.stanford.edu

Host name of this device.

 

 

192.68.191.83

IP address of this device.

 

 

1 msec 1 msec 1 msec

Round-trip time for each probe sent.

 

 

The following table describes characters that may appear in the traceroute command output.

Field

Description

 

 

*

The probe timed out.

 

 

?

Unknown packet type.

 

 

A

Administratively unreachable. Usually, this output indicates that an access list is

 

blocking traffic.

 

 

F

Fragmentation is required and DF is set.

 

 

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