NAME

       traceroute6 - traces path to a network host

SYNOPSIS

       traceroute6 [-dnrvV] [-i interface] [-m max_ttl] [-p port] [-q max_probes] [-s source] [-w
       wait time] destination [size]

DESCRIPTION

       Description can be found in traceroute(8), all the references to IP replaced to  IPv6.  It
       is needless to copy the description from there.

SEE ALSO

       traceroute(8), tracepath(8), ping(8).

HISTORY

       This  program has long history. Author of traceroute is Van Jacobson and it first appeared
       in 1988. This clone is based on a port  of  traceroute  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  iputils
       package.

SECURITY

       tracepath6  requires  CAP_NET_RAW capability to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-
       uid root.

AVAILABILITY

       traceroute6 is part of iputils package and the latest versions are   available  in  source
       form at http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-current.tar.bz2.