Diagnostic tool TRACEROUTE

The TRACEROUTE program is the result of porting the corresponding traceroute program from the Open Source package from Dmitry Butskoy.

TRACEROUTE displays the route and the internet nodes that a data package passes to get to the specified ip address.

Starting TRACEROUTE

When tracert is called, the program expects a suitable IP address or a computer name. When you specify a computer name, TRACEROUTE converts this name into an IP address using the internal tables and an available DNS server. Here the computer name stands both for the specific computer name without the domain label and for an FQDN with the complete computer and domain names.

You can call TRACEROUTE under any ID. There are, however, options which have a different value range depending on whether the program was called under the TSOS ID or under a user ID.

You can dispense with the single quotes when you use SDF-A 04.1G and higher and when the SDF syntax file SYSSDF.SOCKETS.nnn (where nnn >= 025) has been appropriately adjusted.

start-tracert IPv4 address or IPv6 address or processor name (only processor part or FQDN) [-option 1 [Value Option 1] -Option n [Value Option n]]
or
start-tracert [-option 1 [Value Option 1] -Option n [Value Option n]] IPv4 address or IPv6 address or processor name (only processor part or FQDN)
or
tracert IPv4 address or IPv6 address or processor name (only processor part or FQDN) [-option 1 [Value Option 1] -Option n [Value Option n]] 
or
tracert [-option 1 [Value Option 1] -Option n [Value Option n]] IPv4 address or IPv6 address or processor name (only processor part or FQDN)

You can query the possible options online:

tracert
or alternatively
tracert --help

If you specify an unknown option, the program will be aborted with an error message.