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Please give me a short note about tracert and traceroute command

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balaji.bandi
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Both do the same task in a different environment :

 

tracert  - this command used most MS windows environment

traceroute command - used in cisco devices and Linux environments.

 

good example :

 

https://networklessons.com/cisco/ccna-routing-switching-icnd1-100-105/traceroute

 

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Hello,

 

the main difference between 'tracert' (Windows) and 'traceroute' (Cisco) is that the Windows flavor uses simple ICMP echo requests, while the Cisco traceroute uses UDP packets with a random destination port.

 

Below a link to a pretty good explanation of the differences:

 

https://ccie-or-null.net/2011/08/30/the-different-between-tracert-and-traceroute/

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