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traceroute6

traceroute6 - Trace the route to HOST (IPv6)

Description:
traceroute6 tracks the route packets take through an IPv6 network on their way to a given host.

Note: The traceroute command supports both IPv4 and IPv6, so traceroute6 is equivalent to traceroute -6, however some parameters used in IPv4 may not be valid for IPv6.

Usage:

traceroute6 [-dnrv] [-m MAXTTL] [-p PORT] [-q PROBES]
        [-s SRC_IP] [-t TOS] [-w WAIT_SEC] [-i IFACE]
        HOST [BYTES]

Trace the route to HOST

Options:

Option Description
-d Set SO_DEBUG options to socket
-n Print numeric addresses
-r Bypass routing tables, send directly to HOST
-v Verbose
-m Max time-to-live (max number of hops)
-p Base UDP port number used in probes (default is 33434)
-q Number of probes per TTL (default 3)
-s IP address to use as the source address
-t Type-of-service in probe packets (default 0)
-w Time in seconds to wait for a response (default 3)

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