This article spotlights alternative tools to traceroute.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a CLI unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to traceroute | |
|---|---|
| Pingnoo | Analyse network latency and routing problems visually (GUI) |
| mtr | Combines 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network tool |
| GNOME Nettool | Performs ping, netstat, traceroute, port scans, lookup, and whois (GUI) |
| LFT | Layer Four Traceroute |
| Dublin Traceroute | NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool |
| OVTR | Java-based tool (GUI) |
| Trippy | Network diagnostic tool combining the functionality of ping & traceroute |
| mtr085 | Fork of mtr adding functionality such as Unicode histograms |
| mtr-gtk | GUI frontend |
| Fastrace | Designed for network diagnostics and performance analysis |
| NextTrace | Visual route tracking CLI tool |
| OpenTrace | GUI wrapper for NextTrace |
| ETR | MTR-like tool for discovering and analyzing ECMP network routes |
| ttl | Network diagnostic tool that goes beyond traceroute |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to traceroute? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
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What about Trippy, it’s like traceroute and ping together.
Thanks, that’s a great suggestion. We’ve added an entry for Trippy. There are so many wonderful Rust utilities that still manage to evade us!
There’s a few tools like
mtrthat can be aggregated in one separate categorymtr is a combination of traceroute and ping. mtr is included in the ping article too.