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.TH "TRACEROUTE6" "8" "27 September 2002" "iputils-020927" "System Manager's Manual: iputils"
.SH NAME
traceroute6 \- traces path to a network host
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBtraceroute6\fR [ \fB-dnrvV\fR]  [ \fB-i \fIinterface\fB\fR]  [ \fB-m \fImax_ttl\fB\fR]  [ \fB-p \fIport\fB\fR]  [ \fB-q \fImax_probes\fB\fR]  [ \fB-s \fIsource\fB\fR]  [ \fB-w \fIwait time\fB\fR]  \fB\fIdestination\fB\fR [ \fB\fIsize\fB\fR] 

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Description can be found in 
\fBtraceroute\fR(8),
all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is needless to copy
the description from there.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBtraceroute\fR(8),
\fBtracepath\fR(8),
\fBping\fR(8).
.SH "HISTORY"
.PP
This program has long history. Author of \fBtraceroute\fR
is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is
based on a port of \fBtraceroute\fR to IPv6 published
in NRL IPv6 distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported
to Linux by Pedro Roque. After this it was kept in sync by    
Alexey Kuznetsov
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>. And eventually entered
\fBiputils\fR package.
.SH "SECURITY"
.PP
\fBtracepath6\fR requires CAP_NET_RAWIO capability
to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.
.SH "AVAILABILITY"
.PP
\fBtraceroute6\fR is part of \fIiputils\fR package
and the latest versions are  available in source form for anonymous ftp
ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/iputils-current.tar.gz.