<refentry id="traceroute6">

<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>traceroute6</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo>iputils-&snapshot;</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>

<refnamediv>
<refname>traceroute6</refname>
<refpurpose>traces path to a network host</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>traceroute6</command>
<arg choice="opt"><option>-dnrvV</option></arg>
<arg choice="opt">-i <replaceable/interface/</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-m <replaceable/max_ttl/</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable/port/</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-q <replaceable/max_probes/</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-s <replaceable/source/</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-w <replaceable/wait time/</arg>
<arg choice="req"><replaceable/destination/</arg>
<arg choice="opt"><replaceable/size/</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
Description can be found in 
<citerefentry><refentrytitle/traceroute/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>,
all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is needless to copy
the description from there.
</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle/traceroute/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle/tracepath/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle/ping/<manvolnum/8/</citerefentry>.
</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>HISTORY</title>
<para>
This program has long history. Author of <command/traceroute/
is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is
based on a port of <command/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    
<ulink url="mailto:kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru">Alexey Kuznetsov
&lt;kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru&gt;</ulink>. And eventually entered
<command/iputils/ package.
</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>SECURITY</title>
<para>
<command/tracepath6/ requires <constant/CAP_NET_RAW/ capability
to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.
</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>AVAILABILITY</title>
<para>
<command/traceroute6/ is part of <filename/iputils/ package
and the latest versions are  available in source form at
<ulink url="http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-current.tar.bz2">
http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-current.tar.bz2</ulink>.
</para>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1><title>COPYING</title>
<para>
<literallayout>
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License Version 2.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 
For more details see the file COPYING in the source
distribution of Linux kernel of version 2.4.
</literallayout>
</para>
</refsect1>
]]>


</refentry>