"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">

<refentry id='traceroute68'>

<refmeta>

  <refentrytitle>TRACEROUTE6</refentrytitle>

  <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class='manual'>iputils</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<refnamediv>

  <refname>traceroute6</refname>

  <refpurpose>traces path to a network host</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'>

  <cmdsynopsis>

    <command>traceroute6</command>

    <arg choice='opt'>-dnrvV </arg>

    <arg choice='opt'>-i <replaceable>interface</replaceable></arg>

    <arg choice='opt'>-m <replaceable>max_ttl</replaceable></arg>

    <arg choice='opt'>-p <replaceable>port</replaceable></arg>

    <arg choice='opt'>-q <replaceable>max_probes</replaceable></arg>

    <arg choice='opt'>-s <replaceable>source</replaceable></arg>

    <arg choice='opt'><arg choice='plain'>-w <replaceable>wait</replaceable></arg><arg choice='plain'><replaceable>time</replaceable></arg></arg>

    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>destination</replaceable></arg>

    <arg choice='opt'><replaceable>size</replaceable></arg>

    <sbr/>

  </cmdsynopsis>

</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1 id='description'>

  <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

  <para>Description can be found in

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is needless to copy

the description from there.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='see_also'>

  <title>SEE ALSO</title>

  <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>tracepath</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ping</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='history'>

  <title>HISTORY</title>

  <para>This program has long history. Author of <emphasis remap='B'>traceroute</emphasis>

is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is

based on a port of <emphasis remap='B'>traceroute</emphasis> to IPv6 published

in NRL IPv6 distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported

to Linux by Pedro Roque. After this it was kept in sync by Alexey Kuznetsov

<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>. And eventually entered

<emphasis remap='B'>iputils</emphasis> package.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='security'>

  <title>SECURITY</title>

  <para><emphasis remap='B'>tracepath6</emphasis> requires CAP_NET_RAW capability

to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='availability'>

  <title>AVAILABILITY</title>

  <para><command>traceroute6</command> is part of <emphasis remap='I'>iputils</emphasis> package.</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>