NAME
xtraceroute - graphical (X11) traceroute
SYNOPSIS
xtraceroute [options] hostname ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xtraceroute, command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
xtraceroute is a graphical version of the traceroute program, which traces the route your IP packets travel to their destination.
On the display:
* Green dots have good location information,
* Yellow ones has been guessed from the sites' suffix,
* Red ones are unknown.
You can select dots by clicking on them both on the globe and in the list.
ARGUMENTS
hostnames are the names (or IP addresses) of the hosts you are interested in.
OPTIONS
The program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').
- --version
-
Show version number
- -h, --help
-
Display a brief help text.
- -T, --texture texture-name.tiff
-
Use a custom texture (map). It must be a TIFF file. There are a few really good textures on http://www.radcyberzine.com/xglobe/ (Meant for use with Xglobe, but if you convert them to TIFF, they'll work fine.)
- --LOD number
-
Set the level-of-detail for the sphere. (The default is 3, 0-4 is realistic values.)
- --stdio
-
Makes the program read data from stdin instead of calling traceroute(8) (Mainly useful for debugging)
CAVEATS
xtraceroute tries hard to guess the location of machines, but it is just software, it doesn't know everything.
FILES
- /etc/xtraceroute/site_hosts.cache
-
System-wide hosts file
- /etc/xtraceroute/site_networks.cache
-
System-wide networks file
The two files above are filled in by hand, following the model of /usr/share/lib/xtraceroute *.cache files.
- $HOME/.xt/user_hosts.cache
-
Your personal hosts file
- $HOME/.xt/user_networks.cache
-
Your personal networks file
- $HOME/.xt/user_generic.cache
-
Your personal base of regular expressions
These three personal files are typically filled in via the Database menu.
SEE ALSO
More information is in /usr/share/doc/xtraceroute.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).