traceroute traces the route taken by packets over a TCP/IP network. It is used as a network debugging tool to show where packets are being lost along the route.
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Implement Traceroute functionality in android
This is the first time I am asking any question so forgive me for my any mistake.
I want to implement traceroute functionality like this apps available in android play store.
Visual TracertPro
Traceroute
I know that when typing in CMD in windows…

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Navigating to IP address shows different page than navigating to hostname?
I'm looking at a web site we'll call www.example.com . A quick traceroute www.example.com shows that its IP address is 208.76.xx.xxx .
When I browse to "www.example.com" in Firefox, I am shown the web site (a login page). However, when I browse to…

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Why PathPing is faster than Tracert?
I wanted to know why PathPing is faster than Tracert. I googled a lot but was not satisfied with the answers I found, most of the answers talked about its features but not about why it is faster than tracert.
Tracert works by incremental TTL and…

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Traceroute: Is the path same for all the probe packets sent?
Traceroute is an application to trace the path from A to B. (A is your location and B is the server you want to trace).
The basic algorithm is as follows:
send UDP with TTL = 1
Server A1 received, and return ICMP packet to A because TTL is…

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No error output when using subprocess with traceroute
I'm trying to get the error message that is returned when a traceroute fails. For example:
from subprocess import CalledProcessError, check_output
try:
output = check_output(["traceroute", "error"])
except CalledProcessError as error:
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How to get ping time in nanoseconds?
when i ping to 192.168.11.101 it is giving in ping time in ms like
Ping statistics for 192.168.11.101:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 2ms,…

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Python Traceroute error windows 7
Hi i am trying to run this traceroute code in windows 7 but the python script does not receive the replies from the router, this script works in linux and just timeout in windows. in wireshark i can see that the ping requests are being sent and the…

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how to traceroute tor proxy and see other routers in tor network?
I want to know where send my packets when I connect to tor network.I want to see other routers in tor network something like this :
$ traceroute google.com
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4 * * *
5 10.201.42.148 (10.201.42.148) 54.956 ms 56.407 ms 59.104…

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Why does traceroute to a device on my network show just one ip address
I have a local network here. I am doing traceroute to another system on the same network.
I was expecting two results.
One is the hit to my router, and then to the other machine. But I see just one result as follows
1 13 ms 4 ms 12 ms nj-PC…

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TCP Traceroute in C#
How can you perform a TCP traceroute in C#? Is it even possible?

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How to make a TCP SYN request with trace route
I want to make TCP SYN requests using traceroute and discovered the flag -T. However, I don't know which values I have to use in order to make such requests.

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Need help for troubleshooting traceroute in Unix
I have a traceroute Python program for a Unix system that prints out the path the packets take to get from the local machine to a destination — that is, the sequence of routers that the packets go through. The problem is I get an output which…

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Debugging php imap_open function - possible networking error
BACKGROUND: I just migrated my project to a different server (a shared DigitalOcean one, the cheapest offer) with CentOS, and noticed that PHP's imap functions take way more on the new server, than on the old one(like 10x more).
The old server is a…

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Can you run a true ping in Java?
I have done a fair amount of research these last few weeks trying to create a connection diagnostic tool, I don't so much want to just check to see if the connection is available but to diagnose if there is jitter, packet loss, etc..
So far it seems…

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How to save "mtr --report-wide" output to textfile?
I am having troubles saving the output of "mtr --report-wide" to a textfile. Probably due to the different way both options output their information. I know i could use the "--raw" argument but i would like to avoid that.
Does anybody have a…

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