[smokeping-users] Traceroute probe

[Alexis Letessier]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone ever tried to develop a traceroute probe that would display time
series for each hop?
It would permit to detect and localize link congestion or packet loss on the
path.
The main difficulty i see is about dealing with changing network paths.

For example, each periodic test would display 5 values for each hop and the
graph may look like 6 different lines. Therefore each test would display 30
values.

# traceroute -f 4 -n -q 5 www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: www.l.google.com has multiple addresses; using
209.85.135.104
traceroute to www.l.google.com (209.85.135.104), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 4  64.233.175.234  1.894 ms  1.827 ms  1.620 ms  1.717 ms  1.720 ms
 5  72.14.232.104  18.466 ms 72.14.233.105  29.250 ms  29.406 ms
72.14.232.104  18.667 ms  18.511 ms
 6  72.14.238.128  25.928 ms  25.905 ms 72.14.233.106  25.944 ms  26.012 ms
209.85.248.248  27.828 ms
 7  72.14.239.46  28.041 ms 72.14.239.48  28.442 ms  28.388 ms 72.14.239.46
28.019 ms  27.952 ms
 8  209.85.253.26  29.345 ms 72.14.239.54  41.336 ms 209.85.253.26  29.372ms
72.14.239.54  29.306 ms 209.85.253.26  39.806 ms
 9  209.85.135.104  28.256 ms  28.417 ms  28.313 ms  28.316 ms  28.177 ms

cheers,
Alexis
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