Windows 7 how to do simple traceroute with ping?

Question

On mac, I can do this:

> ping -DRo computerhope.com

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/125068/is-there-an-equivalent-utility-to-linuxs-tracepath-for-os-x

And it will basically do a simple tracepath. Can I do the same thing on Windows 7? How about with cygwin?

Answer 1

Can I do the same thing on Windows 7?

You can use pathping:

Pathping is a TCP/IP based utility (command-line tool) that provides useful information about network Latency and Packet Loss at intermediate hops between a source address and a destination address.

It does this by sending "echo request" packets via ICMP and analyzing the results.

And

Trace route and provide network latency and packet loss for each router and link in the path. Combines the functionality of PING and TRACERT.

Source PathPing - IP trace - Windows CMD - SS64.com

Example output:

Tracing route to eu.newerth.com [87.117.228.107]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

[snip]

  3  hlo-lc0001-cr102-ae10-218.core.as9143.net [213.51.166.82]
  4  asd-tr0610-cr101-ae6-0.core.as9143.net [213.51.158.82]
  5  ae5-125.ams29.ip4.gtt.net [77.67.64.65]
  6  xe-7-2-1.lon25.ip4.gtt.net [141.136.107.38]
  7  iomart-gw.ip4.gtt.net [46.33.94.2]
  8  610.net2.north.dc5.as20860.net [62.233.127.182]
  9  87.117.212.42
 10  eu.newerth.com [87.117.228.107]

Computing statistics for 250 seconds...
            Source to Here   This Node/Link
Hop  RTT    Lost/Sent = Pct  Lost/Sent = Pct  Address

[snip]

                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  3   46ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  hlo-lc0001-cr102-ae10-218.core.as9143.net [213.51.166.82]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  4   53ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  asd-tr0610-cr101-ae6-0.core.as9143.net [213.51.158.82]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  5   39ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  ae5-125.ams29.ip4.gtt.net [77.67.64.65]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  6   60ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  xe-7-2-1.lon25.ip4.gtt.net [141.136.107.38]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  7   73ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  iomart-gw.ip4.gtt.net [46.33.94.2]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  8   56ms     1/ 100 =  1%     1/ 100 =  1%  610.net2.north.dc5.as20860.net [62.233.127.182]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  9   56ms     1/ 100 =  1%     1/ 100 =  1%  87.117.212.42
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 10   50ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  eu.newerth.com [87.117.228.107]

Trace complete.

For more information see my answer https://superuser.com/a/814919/337631.