Traceroute vs Tracert

Van Jacobsen’s traceroute utility is not the same thing as Windows tracert, and the MS-Windows tool is probably more academically correct. The GNU version of traceroute that is included with most linux and BSD operating systems can do both kinds of tracing, but does the Van Jake by default (use traceroute -I to get the windows-style ICMP trace).

People have occasionally given routers silly names to produce amusing traces.

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