ITRACE(1)

💖 NAME 💖

itrace — it's giving traceroute but make it ICMP echo ✨ bestie, it pings its way to the truth 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page is a lil rundown of the itrace command, and before we go any further: this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program straight up does not have a manual page 😭 not a single one. so we made one. you're welcome 🫶

itrace is a program that does traceroute(1) functionality, except it uses ICMP echo request packets to do it. no cap.

so the vibe is: it literally looks like you're just pinging your target while you traceroute your way there 🎀 sneak level 100.

and the reason that matters? it often helps tracing behind firewalls 🔥 firewalls see a ping, they're like "aw cute, nothing to see here", and meanwhile you're mapping the whole route. iconic behaviour fr fr.

✨ Typical Usage ✨

itrace -i eth0 -d www.phenoelit.de

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v — verbose mode, spill the tea ☕
• -n — reverse lookup the answering IPs. heads up bestie, this is slow! like genuinely slow, we warned you 😭
• -p x — send x probes per hop (default=3)
• -m x — set the TTL max to x (default=30)
• -t x — timeout after x seconds (default=3)
• -i interface — the normal eth0 stuff, yk, the interface you're going out of 🌸
• -d destination — name or IP of the destination, where we're headed 🦋

ok but real talk, all these defaults are literally the defaults: 3 probes, TTL max 30, timeout 3 seconds. don't come for me, that's what the page says 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Vince Mulhollon <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). periodt 💜

and that's the whole thing babes 🎀 this was the itrace(1) page from the General Commands Manual, last touched January 13, 2003 — yes it's vintage, it's still slaying, and it ate 💅✨