The command summary shown in the figure above holds the answer to this question.Īs previously noted, the native Windows Tracert tool has been around for decades.
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You might have noticed that up until now, I have not addressed the question of why an IT pro might choose to use Traceroute NG as opposed to the native Windows Tracert tool.
This is the Traceroute NG command syntax. As you can see in the figure, there are ten different command line switches that you can use, and Traceroute NG provides a brief summary of each switch, as well as displaying the command summary. As is the case for most command line tools, TraceNG displayed its command syntax, which you can see in the figure below. I decided to get started with my evaluation by simply typing the TraceNG command to see what would happen. Instead, the tool is operated solely from the Windows command prompt. Unlike many of the other SolarWinds products, Traceroute NG does not make use of the Orion console.
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This very simple wizard required little more than just accepting the license agreement. From there, I opened an elevated Command Prompt window and ran the TraceNG.exe command, which launched a Setup Wizard.
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The download consisted of an 8 MB ZIP file, which I promptly extracted. The Installation Processįor the purposes of this review, I downloaded a copy of Traceroute NG from SolarWinds. You can refer to this feature comparison of Traceroute NG and Network Performance Monitor to see the main differences between the two products. In contrast, Traceroute NG is a free tool that can not only do network path discovery, but also provide very quick results that are easy to share. Network Performance Monitor has a starting price of $2995, and is an advanced network analysis tool that does much more than just network path discovery.
It is worth noting, that Traceroute NG is not intended to compete with Network Performance Monitor. As such, SolarWinds clearly has the experience to build a great network path discovery tool. The company offers a product called Network Performance Monitor that can provide really detailed multi-path hop by hop analysis, as well as graphical path mapping visualizations (among many other things). The TTL is incremented by 1 each time, until the ICMP packet is eventually able to reach its destination.īuilding network path discovery tools is not exactly new for SolarWinds. It then sets the TTL to 2, and attempts the operation again.
As such, Tracert initially sets the ICMP TTL value to 1, in order to find the first router along the route. The TTL value is a numerical Time to Live value, and each router in route to the destination decreases the TTL by 1, until the TTL reaches 0. The difference between Ping and Tracert however, is that Tracert exploits the TTL value in an effort to determine the route to the destination. Tracert works similarly to the Ping command in that it sends ICMP packets to the designated host. Tracert is a command line tool that is used to find the route to a network or Internet host. In order to appreciate the benefits of Traceroute NG, it is necessary to understand how Microsoft’s native Tracert tool works. Curious as to how the SolarWinds tool might benefit IT pros who are already accustom to using the native Tracert tool, I just had to check it out. Recently however, SolarWinds released their own version, which they call Traceroute NG. The Tracert (Trace Route) tool has been a part of the Windows operating system for decades, and there are also countless open source variants of this tool.
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