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MTR or "My Traceroute" combines the functions of Traceroute and Ping in one tool.
MTR can be installed as an IPFire addon over the console with:
pakfire install mtr
or over the IPFire web interface via Pakfire
MTR works over the ICMP execution (ping) with a Time-To-Live Value (TTL) starting with 1 to the first hop (router).
Hereby the expired time of the packet are recognized and the packet will be discarded and a ICMP-response "Time-to-live exceeded" will be send back to the sender.
The next request becomes a TTL of 2 and so on. The information of each hop (routers) will be collected by the increased TTL-values and shows the way of the data packages to the target host.
MTR starts then again to display over a time progression the average of "Best-case" and "Worst-case" values.
For a simplified output use the following command over the console of IPFire or use an ssh-connection for a remote shell:
mtr www.ipfire.org
this should give an similar output like this back:
My traceroute [v0.82]
ipfire (0.0.0.0) Fri Jul 6 12:06:17 2012
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. gateway 0.0% 932 0.7 0.5 0.5 14.4 0.7
2. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 0.0% 932 12.7 12.7 11.7 83.4 3.5
3. xxxxxxxxxxxx 0.0% 932 14.2 17.2 12.8 138.4 8.6
4. 92.79.212.213 0.0% 931 16.1 19.1 12.8 158.9 6.7
5. 92.79.213.122 0.0% 931 15.8 21.3 15.0 148.0 5.8
6. r1fra1.core.init7.net 0.0% 931 16.4 19.3 15.3 159.1 6.6
7. gw-hetzner.init7.net 0.1% 931 24.1 25.3 22.8 149.3 7.7
8. hos-bb1.juniper2.rz12.hetzner.de 0.0% 931 28.2 30.1 27.8 146.1 8.8
9. hos-tr4.ex3k12.rz12.hetzner.de 0.0% 931 30.4 29.7 27.7 52.0 1.8
10. albus.ipfire.org 0.0% 931 28.4 28.7 27.0 210.2 6.7
There are a some more useful options, which can be overviewed in the below linked addresses
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