I was working with someone on a project and I noticed they were using mtr (My Trace Route) instead of traceroute, is there some advantage to this? Why would they use that other tool instead?
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Since this is Ubuntu-oriented site I have made a comparison of similar tools available on this distribution.
From their respective MAN pages:
Traceroute
traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host.
Example Output (trimmed):
$ traceroute 1.1.1.1
traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.265 ms 0.248 ms 0.239 ms 2 * * * 3 X-X-X-X.X.X.pl (X.X.X.X) 21.871 ms 22.061 ms 25.072 ms (more data here) 10 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 24.072 ms 22.439 ms 21.497 msMTR
mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
In short MTR does traceroute continuously and presents it in nice formatted table.
Example output:
$ mtr 1.1.1.1 -c 5 --report
Start: 2019-08-09T15:13:28+0200
HOST: blackhole Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- 192.168.1.1 0.0% 5 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 2.|-- X-X-X-X.X.X 0.0% 5 9.7 9.0 8.4 9.7 0.5 3.|-- X-X-X-X.X.X 0.0% 5 9.6 8.6 6.2 9.8 1.5 (more data here) 10.|-- one.one.one.one 0.0% 5 12.8 13.4 10.7 18.9 3.3
