Using pathping on Windows as an IP Trace tool
Posted : May 13, 2004 at 12:41 am [America/Los_Angeles]
I have relied on ping and traceroute (or tracert on Windows) to study network routes and related network latency for quite some time time. So, I was suprised to find that there actually was another IP trace command available in Windows called pathping. Here’s a quick description:
…Basically a hybrid of ping and tracert, pathping one-ups these traditional utilities by providing statistical analysis of results over a period of time — usually about 5 minutes. (This can vary dependant on the number of hops being analyzed enroute.) In addition to returning the computer name and IP address for each hop, pathping computes the percentage of lost/sent packets to each router or link. This additional information is what enables you to isolate the cause of a network problem…
Click here for an example of it’s usage and sample output.
- Anand
Category: Systems