Description
MTR is a network diagnostic tool. AppBoxCo support may ask you for a bidirectional MTR when necessary.
About MTR
A MTR is a tracker for the packages that travel from one location to another—displaying where it passes, and the possible origin of a delay. It diagnoses and isolates networking errors. As we need both routes to determine the delay, we request for bidirectional MTR. MTR is different from traceroute as it combines the information of traceroute and ping, but unlike traceroute, is not limited to 3 packets per hop. The main advantage of MTR is that it will shows you the packet loss per hop, which allows you to determine if there is a problem along the route the traffic takes, or only on the final hop to the server itself.
The MTR command should be run on the server and on the client computer (for example, your PC at home). If you do not know your IP address of your PC, you can visit www.whatismyip.com to find your IP details that required to run the MTR.
You can find more information on MTR Here: https://www.comparitech.com/net-admin/what-is-mtr/
Making a MTR
We ask for the following two options to be used when running the command:
- Not to resolve names
- To create the MTR with at least 100 packets
Windows
On a Windows PC or server, you can download the application WinMTR (http://winmtr.net/).
Please use the following version of MTR https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=winmtrnet
At least 100 packets are required, and Resolve names must be turned off in the Options menu.
Linux
Open a terminal and run the "mtr -n x.x.x.x" command (without quotes) to get a running MTR, or for a static output with 100 packets: "mtr -n -r -c 100 x.x.x.x".
Replace x.x.x.x with the IP address you want to run the MTR to. See the example below.
Linux: traceroute
Mac
On your Mac, open a terminal and run the "mtr -n x.x.x.x" command (without quotes) to get a running MTR, or for a static output with 100 packets: "mtr -n -r -c 100 x.x.x.x".
Replace x.x.x.x with the IP address you want to run the MTR to. See the example below.
MacOS: traceroute
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