What is a trace route (or TRACERT)?
As packets travel from one site to another, they typically pass through several routers (or host computers acting as routers). A trace route (such as the function by that name in Esi-Networx or the MS-DOS command, TRACERT) queries each router along the path, starting with the first one, to determine the next step — or hop — along the route, and calculates the round-trip time to that router.
As packets travel from one site to another, they typically pass through several routers (or host computers acting as routers). A trace route (such as the function by that name in the MS-DOS command, TRACERT) queries each router along the path, starting with the first one, to determine the next step — or hop — along the route, and calculates the round-trip time to that router.
