<refentry xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"
xml:id="man.traceroute6">
<refentryinfo>
<title>traceroute6</title>
<productname>iputils</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>
<application>traceroute6</application>
</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class='manual'>iputils</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>traceroute6</refname>
<refpurpose>traces path to a network host</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis sepchar=" ">
<command>traceroute6</command>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
<option>-dnrvV</option>
</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
<option>-i
<replaceable>interface</replaceable></option>
</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
<option>-m
<replaceable>max_ttl</replaceable></option>
</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
<option>-p
<replaceable>port</replaceable></option>
</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
<option>-q
<replaceable>max_probes</replaceable></option>
</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
<option>-s
<replaceable>source</replaceable></option>
</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
<option>-w
<replaceable>wait time</replaceable></option>
</arg>
<arg choice="req" rep="norepeat">destination</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">size</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection>
<info>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
</info>
<para>Description can be found in
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>, all the references to IP replaced to IPv6.
It is needless to copy the description from there.</para>
</refsection>
<refsect1 id='see_also'>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>,
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>tracepath</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>,
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>ping</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='history'>
<title>HISTORY</title>
<para>This program has long history. Author of
<command>traceroute</command> is Van Jacobson and it first
appeared in 1988. This clone is based on a port of
<command>traceroute</command> 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
<emphasis remap="B">iputils</emphasis> package.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='security'>
<title>SECURITY</title>
<para>
<command>traceroute6</command> requires CAP_NET_RAW capability
to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='availability'>
<title>AVAILABILITY</title>
<para>
<command>traceroute6</command> is part of
<emphasis remap='I'>iputils</emphasis> package.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>