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Psiber Data Systems Revision 2.01
PingerPro User Guide
Trace Route
Trace Route
displays the path and measures the delay of
a packet
across an
IP network. The path of the
packet is recorded as the round-trip time received from each remote node in the path. The sum of the mean
times in each hop indicates the total time spent to establish the connection. Select the
Enable
button to
add this test to the Ping Test. The Trace Route settings are now displayed.
Setup Trace Route Screen
Setup Trace Route Screen-Enabled
Select the
Type
button to toggle through UDP or ICMP packet. This can help identify incorrect routing table
definitions or firewalls that may be blocking ICMP traffic or high port UDP in Unix ping to a site. A firewall
may permit ICMP packets but no other packets.
Setup Trace Route-UDP
Setup Trace Route-ICMP
The
hop count
refers to the intermediate devices through which data must pass between the PingerPro and
the target device.
Each router along the path constitutes as a hop. Set the Max Hop limit by selecting the
Max Hop
button and entering in a number. Select
OK
.
