traceroute

Use the traceroute command to perform a traceroute to a specified IP address. Optionally, you can specify the source interface.

traceroute source-interface | name | number id | IP Address

Parameters

source-interface Keyword indicating that a source interface will be specified.
name Identifies the source interface by name. The names are platform specific. You can use the show topology command to display a list of interfaces.
number id Identifies the source interface by number. The numbers are platform specific.
IP Address Specifies an IP address. The IP address can be either IPv4 A.B.C.D or IPv6 A:B:C:D:E:F:G:H format.

Examples

The following example performs a traceroute to a specified IP Address:

EWC.extremenetworks.com# traceroute 68.142.226.40
traceroute to 68.142.226.40 (68.142.226.40), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.801 ms  0.749 ms  0.729 ms
 2  67.69.27.57 (67.69.27.57)  1.898 ms  1.909 ms  1.894 ms
 3  64.230.194.178 (64.230.194.178)  9.660 ms  14.352 ms  11.032 ms
 4  64.230.233.81 (64.230.233.81)  9.666 ms  10.382 ms  9.307 ms
 5  64.230.222.21 (64.230.222.21)  10.266 ms  10.114 ms  10.300 ms
 6  206.108.107.230 (206.108.107.230)  10.169 ms  9.392 ms  10.494 ms
 7  209.58.25.69 (209.58.25.69)  10.458 ms  9.367 ms  10.942 ms
 8  216.6.57.33 (216.6.57.33)  28.928 ms  29.757 ms  30.315 ms
 9  216.6.57.42 (216.6.57.42)  36.011 ms  35.677 ms  34.488 ms
10  63.243.149.110 (63.243.149.110)  38.094 ms  33.761 ms  35.160 ms
11  216.115.96.189 (216.115.96.189)  34.285 ms 216.115.96.173 (216.115.96.173)  40.339 ms 216.115.96.193 (216.115.96.193)  34.594 ms
12  206.190.33.95 (206.190.33.95)  36.994 ms 206.190.33.93 (206.190.33.93)  36.402 ms 206.190.33.89 (206.190.33.89)  32.584 ms
13  68.142.226.40 (68.142.226.40)  36.595 ms  35.023 ms  35.818 ms

The following example performs a traceroute, specifying the source interface by number:

EWC.extremenetworks.com# traceroute source-interface number 2 192.168.3.12
traceroute to 192.168.3.12 (192.168.3.12) from 10.1.0.1, 30 hops max, 38 byte pa                      ckets
 1  ac_esa_port_0 (10.1.0.1)  3001.190 ms !H  3000.825 ms !H  3000.581 ms !H