
TRACERT prints out an ordered list of the intermediate routers that return ICMP "Time Exceeded" messages. Note however that some routers silently drop packets that have expired TTLs, and these packets are invisible to TRACERT. The ICMP "Time Exceeded" messages that intermediate routers send back show the route. TRACERT sends the first echo packet with a TTL of 1 and increments the TTL by 1 on each subsequent transmission, until the destination responds or until the maximum TTL is reached. When the TTL on a packet reaches zero (0), the router sends an ICMP "Time Exceeded" message back to the source computer. Because each router along the path is required to decrement the packet's TTL by at least 1 before forwarding the packet, the TTL is effectively a hop counter. In these packets, TRACERT uses varying IP Time-To-Live (TTL) values. The TRACERT diagnostic utility determines the route to a destination by sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo packets to the destination. More Information How to Use the TRACERT Utility This article discusses the following topics: This article describes TRACERT (Trace Route), a command-line utility that you can use to trace the path that an Internet Protocol (IP) packet takes to its destination. The nettl tool provides control network tracing and logging.For a Microsoft Windows 2000 version of this article, see 162326. Save the resulting file which can be read by Network Monitor or ethereal.įor additional information, visit the technote, How to capture network traffic with Network Monitor Once the traffic needed has been captured, click stop. Select the interface to listen on and click start. Using Network Monitor with Microsoft® Windows® This will listen on the default interface for all port 80 traffic. Tcpdump has many options and a comprehensive man page.Ī simple way to capture all packets to a binary file which is readable with ethereal.įor a simple packet trace that is formatted and readable by any text editor. Warning: Using some options, packets may be corrupted by snoop. Use combinations of snoop options to meet your needs. These commands capture all traffic on the hme0 interface. Output written to a binary file that is readable by Ethereal. Commonly used when dumping to pre-formatted output. Trace tools like Wireshark can read trace.out files created by iptraceĮxception: it is not possible to collect a packet capture on AIX when using IBM Load Balancer for ipv4 and ipv6 Reproduce the problem, then run the following: This trace will capture both directions of the port 80 traffic on interface en1 between the clientip and serverip and send this to the raw file of trace.out. Iptrace -a -i en1 -s clientip -b -d serverip -p 80 trace.out Run iptrace on AIX interface en1 to capture port 80 traffic from a single client IP to a server IP: bĜapture bidirectional traffic (send and responsepackets). d Limit trace to destination IP, if known. s Limit trace to source/client IP address, if known. You can use any combination of these options, you do not need to use them all:


Wireshark is useful and a freely available tool that can read files and capture packets on almost any operating system. However, the most appropriate tool varies, depending on operating system. Creating, formatting, and reading packet traces is sometimes required to resolve problems with IBM® WebSphere® Edge Server.
