1<refentry id="traceroute6">
2
3<refmeta>
4<refentrytitle>traceroute6</refentrytitle>
5<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
6<refmiscinfo>iputils-&snapshot;</refmiscinfo>
7</refmeta>
8
9<refnamediv>
10<refname>traceroute6</refname>
11<refpurpose>traces path to a network host</refpurpose>
12</refnamediv>
13
14<refsynopsisdiv>
15<cmdsynopsis>
16<command>traceroute6</command>
17<arg choice="opt"><option>-dnrvV</option></arg>
18<arg choice="opt">-i <replaceable/interface/</arg>
19<arg choice="opt">-m <replaceable/max_ttl/</arg>
20<arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable/port/</arg>
21<arg choice="opt">-q <replaceable/max_probes/</arg>
22<arg choice="opt">-s <replaceable/source/</arg>
23<arg choice="opt">-w <replaceable/wait time/</arg>
24<arg choice="req"><replaceable/destination/</arg>
25<arg choice="opt"><replaceable/size/</arg>
26</cmdsynopsis>
27</refsynopsisdiv>
28
29<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
30<para>
31Description can be found in
32<citerefentry><refentrytitle/traceroute/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>,
33all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is needless to copy
34the description from there.
35</para>
36</refsect1>
37
38<refsect1><title>SEE ALSO</title>
39<para>
40<citerefentry><refentrytitle/traceroute/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>,
41<citerefentry><refentrytitle/tracepath/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>,
42<citerefentry><refentrytitle/ping/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>.
43</para>
44</refsect1>
45
46<refsect1><title>HISTORY</title>
47<para>
48This program has long history. Author of <command/traceroute/
49is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is
50based on a port of <command/traceroute/ to IPv6 published
51in NRL IPv6 distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported
52to Linux by Pedro Roque. After this it was kept in sync by
53<ulink url="mailto:kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru">Alexey Kuznetsov
54&lt;kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru&gt;</ulink>. And eventually entered
55<command/iputils/ package.
56</para>
57</refsect1>
58
59<refsect1><title>SECURITY</title>
60<para>
61<command/tracepath6/ requires <constant/CAP_NET_RAW/ capability
62to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.
63</para>
64</refsect1>
65
66<refsect1><title>AVAILABILITY</title>
67<para>
68<command/traceroute6/ is part of <filename/iputils/ package
69and the latest versions are  available in source form at
70<ulink url="http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-current.tar.bz2">
71http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-current.tar.bz2</ulink>.
72</para>
73</refsect1>
74
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76<refsect1><title>COPYING</title>
77<para>
78<literallayout>
79This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
80it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
81License Version 2.
82
83This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
84useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
85warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
86See the GNU General Public License for more details.
87
88For more details see the file COPYING in the source
89distribution of Linux kernel of version 2.4.
90</literallayout>
91</para>
92</refsect1>
93]]>
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