Better network connection insights with mtr | Linux Today

Better network connection insights with mtr

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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Sep 4, 2014

The mtr tool — “my traceroute”, originally “Matt’s traceroute” for the guy that first developed it (Matt Kimball in 1997) — is in some ways like a combination of traceroute and ping and it provides a lot more data than the two of these commands combined.

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Sandra Henry-Stocker

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