I need help with a reality/sanity check. Traceroute is a good tool for checking for routing type problems (loops). Does anyone feel it's a good tool
It's probably a poor tool for all kinds of really good technical reasons, but "Matts traceroute" aka MTR is useful to me, often shows overstressed routers or connections... especially when normal traceroute just shows garbage.
the fact that it does all the probes in parallel, without waiting for any single probe to time out is definitely a plus.
Example screen: ...
try mtr with -r (report mode) and -c (number of probe cycles to send) to get nice little snapshots. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."