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I'm learning networking troubleshooting and noticed how there are three different time values outputted for every hop when using traceroute, what do they mean? (The left CLI in the image is a router and the right is a Windows CLI)
Axel Kennedal
Posted 2014-03-06T11:47:14.647
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Three requests are made for each hop, and the times represent the round-trip time for each request. In your first example, the third request to hop number 3 took far longer than the other two.
You're likely to see bigger disparities for more distant hops as there are more factors that can affect round-trip times.
Flup
Posted 2014-03-06T11:47:14.647
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Ahaa! Do you BTW know any flag or something you can use together with traceoroute/tracert to at the end of the output get min/avg/max times? @flup – Axel Kennedal – 2014-03-06T11:55:30.810
I don't, but stats like that would be pretty meaningless. You might be better off looking at the stats at the end of a
pingrun. – Flup – 2014-03-06T12:00:20.263Of course, I just got them mixed up ;) @flup – Axel Kennedal – 2014-03-06T17:26:56.317
If you want something with more stats than traceroute, look at MTR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_%28software%29
– MaQleod – 2014-03-06T19:42:19.617