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.