DESCRIPTION
traceroute tracks the route packets take across a TCP/IP network on their way to a given host.

See traceroute command in Linux also.

How it works??

• Tracert utility uses the ttl field of ip packet header to accomplish its goal. TTL field(usually set to 32 or 64) tells us the number of hops a packet will have travel to reach to its destination host.
• Each time a packet passes a hop, the ttl value is decreased by one and when the TTL value at an intermediate hop (router) becomes 1, the packet is discarded.
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