MTR - A Network Diagnostic Tool for Linux | Linux Today

MTR – A Network Diagnostic Tool for Linux

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Aaron Kili
Jun 29, 2018

Tecmint: MTR is a simple, cross-platform command-line network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of commonly used traceroute and ping programs into a single tool. In a similar fashion as traceroute, mtr prints information about the route that packets take from the host on which mtr is run to a user specified destination host.

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Aaron Kili

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