NAME
traceroute6 - traces path to a network host
SYNOPSIS
traceroute6 [-dnrvV] [-i interface] [-m max_ttl] [-p port] [-q max_probes] [-s source] [-w wait time] destination [size]
DESCRIPTION
Description can be found in
traceroute(8),
all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is needless to copy
the description from there.
SEE ALSO
traceroute(8),
tracepath(8),
ping(8).
HISTORY
This program has long history. Author of traceroute
is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is
based on a port of traceroute to IPv6 published
in NRL IPv6 distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported
to Linux by Pedro Roque. After this it was kept in sync by
Alexey Kuznetsov
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>. And eventually entered
iputils package.
SECURITY
tracepath6 requires CAP_NET_RAWIO capability
to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.
AVAILABILITY
traceroute6 is part of iputils package
and the latest versions are available in source form at
http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-current.tar.bz2.
