# traceroute6

traceroute6

8 iputils

traceroute6

traces path to a network host

          traceroute6

            -dnrvV

            -i
            interface

            -m
            max_ttl

            -p
            port

            -q
            max_probes

            -s
            source

            -w
            wait time

          destination
          size

Description can be found in

traceroute

8 , all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is needless to copy the description from there.

## SEE ALSO

traceroute

8 ,

tracepath

8 ,

ping

8 .

## HISTORY

This program has long history. Author of `traceroute` is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is based on a port of `traceroute` to IPv6 published in NRL IPv6 distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported to Linux by Pedro Roque. After this it was kept in sync by Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>. And eventually entered iputils package.

## SECURITY

`traceroute6` requires CAP_NET_RAW capability to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.

## AVAILABILITY

`traceroute6` is part of iputils package.