Get intermediate nodes using ping

Question

I need to get intermediate nodes when requesting the route through ping.

• I can get the intermediate routes through traceroute url, but in the server there's a problem
• I cannot use traceroute. I only need to get the intermediate host ips for my program.

Most of the forums I have read suggested to use ping -R url, but that doesn't reflect the intermediate node when I check with ping and traceroute on my local machine.

Is there a way I can get intermediate nodes only using ping? ( Without installing any other package like traceroute? )

Answer 1

You can manually do the same kind of tracing by running ping several times with increasing time-to-live. The option for specifying a TTL is -t on Linux, -i on Windows:

ping -t 1 $hostname
ping -t 2 $hostname
ping -t 3 $hostname
...and so on.

Unlike ping -R, this also works with IPv6 (not counting a bug in Windows' ping.exe which makes it show the wrong IP address when in IPv6 mode).

Answer 2

The MTR software, linux command mtr, groups traceroute and ping and get's you a result every second. Available as console and GUI. Winmtr is the Windows version of it.

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