traviscross/mtr
Mtr
MTR is a network diagnostic tool that combines the functions of traceroute and ping to monitor packet loss and latency across every hop in a network path. It serves as an ICMP route analyzer and packet loss monitor designed to discover network paths and measure the performance of intervening routers.
The tool functions as a network path visualizer, displaying real-time network health and connectivity data through either a text-based terminal interface or a graphical window.
The project covers network path mapping and real-time path tracing to identify routers between a host and destination. It provides performance measurement and link quality monitoring by calculating running statistics for packet loss and latency at each hop.
Features
- ICMP Path Tracing - Functions as a utility for mapping network hops and measuring router performance using ICMP or UDP probes.
- Path Diagnostics - Discovers the network path between a host and destination by sending probes to identify intervening routers.
- Hop Stability Metrics - Calculates running statistics for each router along a network path to identify packet loss and latency.
- Hop Statistics Tracking - Maintains running totals of packet loss and round-trip time for every discovered router in the network path.
- Network Diagnostics - Combines traceroute and ping to monitor packet loss and latency across every hop in a network path.
- Route Diagnosis - Maps network packet paths and tests performance to locate specific routers causing failures or delays.
- Network Latency Analyzers - Analyzes network latency by measuring the response time of each individual router in the path.
- Network Route Visualization - Provides graphical and text-based representations of the paths data packets take to identify bottlenecks.
- Network Troubleshooting Tools - Provides diagnostic tools to determine if connectivity issues reside in the local network or with a remote provider.
- Packet Injection Engines - Employs a packet injection engine to send custom raw packets directly to the kernel for header control.
- Continuous Packet Loss Probing - Sends continuous probes to network hops to measure stability and detect intermittent drops in data transmission.
- Real-Time Path Tracing - Combines connectivity probes with route discovery to monitor active network paths in real time.
- Packet Loss Monitors - Operates as a continuous probing system that identifies the specific router or link causing network instability.
- TTL-Based Path Discovery - Identifies network routers by incrementally increasing the time-to-live values of outgoing packets.
- Asynchronous Packet Listeners - Implements background ICMP response capturing to ensure network latency does not freeze the user interface.
- Concurrency Schedulers - Uses a concurrency scheduler to manage multiple simultaneous probes to different network hops.
- Path Performance Monitors - Tracks performance metrics and state data for specific network paths via continuous probing.
- Network Health Visualizations - Displays network health and diagnostic data through graphical and terminal interfaces.
- CLI and GUI Renderers - Provides a decoupled display layer that supports both a terminal-based interface and a graphical window.
- Troubleshooting Tools - Network diagnostic tool combining traceroute and ping.
- Command Line Tools - Listed in the “Command Line Tools” section of the The Book Of Secret Knowledge awesome list.
- System Utilities - Network diagnostic tool combining ping and traceroute functionality.
- Troubleshooting Tools - Network diagnostic tool combining traceroute and ping.
