Tracert

TRACERT

• Look for latency between network hops
• Look for routing loops
• Look for flapping routes
• Count hops to determine if large routing path is reason for latency

Show the Path from the Networked Computer to Destination

    tracert <IP|Domain>

Get Path to Destination but Exclude DNS

• The idea behind this tracert command is that it allows you to find out whether a router has malfunctioned. By comparing the tracert results with your network documentation, you should be able to alert the correct network person to the problem, or perhaps fix the problem yourself.

  tracert -d <IP|Domain>
  

Get Path to Destination but Limit Hops

• hop: Number of routing devices a packet passes through from source to destination

  tracert -h 3 <IP|Domain>
  

PATHPING

• Pathping is similar to tracert but it will also compute the degree of packet loss.

  pathping <IP|Domain>