Mtr : Stop using ping and traceroute anymore | Linux Today

Mtr : Stop using ping and traceroute anymore

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Dec 23, 2020

Mtr is a simple linux command line tool that you can use for network diagnostic and troubleshooting in linux. It comes with the options of both ping and traceroute commands. The advantage over using the ping and traceroute commands is that Mtr will provide a lot of statistics about each hop, like response time and percentage.

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