traceroute

Use the traceroute command to print wide area network (WAN) route packets to a specified host.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram sainfo traceroute -ip_or_nameip_addresshost_name

Parameters

-ip_or_name ip_address | host_name
(Required) Specifies the host system IP address or host system name that you want to print WAN route packets to. The value for the IP address must be a standard IPv4 or IPv6 address. The value for the host name must be an alphanumeric string.

Description

This command prints WAN print route packets to a specified host.

An invocation example

sainfo traceroute -ip_or_name compass.ssd.hursley.ibm.com
 

The resulting output:

traceroute to compass.ssd.hursley.ibm.com (9.71.44.59), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
  1  9.71.45.4 (9.71.45.4)  0.283 ms  0.337 ms  0.397 ms
  2  compass.ssd.hursley.ibm.com (9.71.44.59)  0.124 ms  0.124 ms  0.113 ms