Free Visual Traceroute

What is Free Visual Traceroute?

Traceroute is a very useful tool for determining the response delays and routing loops present in a network pathway across packet switched nodes. It also helps to locate any points of failure encountered while en route to a certain destination.

Free Visual Trace Route is a utility that traces a packet from your computer to an Internet host, showing how many hops the packet requires to reach the host and how long each hop takes. If you're visiting a Web site and pages are appearing slowly, you can use trace route to figure out where the longest delays are occurring.

Free Visual Trace Route utility works by sending packets with low Time-To-Live (TTL) fields. The TTL value specifies how many hops the packet is allowed before it is returned. When a packet can't reach its destination because the TTL value is too low, the last host returns the packet and identifies itself. By sending a series of packets and incrementing the TTL value with each successive packet, traceroute finds out who all the intermediary hosts are.

TCP and UDP:

The free WhatsUp Visual Traceroute tool displays the route that TCP, UDP, and ICMP packets and it allows you to configure the source and destination ports for the latter two protocols. TCP and destination port 80 are your best bet if you want to measure response times from every router along the path to your destination.

But, if you are not troubleshooting a web application, the ability to use another port can be helpful. Note that you have to install the WinPcap packet capture library if you want to work with UDP and TCP. Visual Traceroute also allows you to decide whether the SYN flag or the FIN flag is set in the TCP packet.

Latency:

The latency thresholds of Visual Traceroute are perhaps more interesting. The two sliders allow you to define which latency performance is displayed as good (green), marginal (yellow), and red (bad) on the Results tab.

Topologoy:

The Topology tab gives you an overview of alternate routes to the destination. On the Results tab, hops with multiple possible routers have a + sign in front of the hop number. Clicking the sign reveals the data for the corresponding routers.

Logs and Whois:

If this is all too colorful for your taste and you prefer the spartan output of a command-line tool, simply click the Logs tab. The Target Information tab offers Whois information about the destination host.

What are the features and benefits of Free Visual Trace Route?

• Very fast tracing


• Time chart


• Easy to use GUI


• Command prompt launching


• Very easy to use interface


• Incredible tracing speed


• Complete control of tracing parameters


• Detailed and complete results of the tracing process


• Real time results in text and graphical mode


• Complete documentation


• Desktop and start menu launching


• Command prompt launching


• Command prompt launching WITH parameters

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