October 23, 2000 01:23 PM

PathPing: Traceroute on Steroids

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Sean Daily
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Win2K's handy utility for diagnosing network-routing problems
Let me tell you about one of Windows 2000's greatest undiscovered gems—PathPing. This utility is a helpful RAS tool as well as a useful general diagnostic tool that network administrators and users will love. But to truly appreciate PathPing's benefits, you must be familiar with its predecessor, Traceroute.

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Thankyou your article was very helpful to me, it has helped me learn something new today =).



Anonymous User 5/21/2005 11:39:11 PM

A good article. Would have been a good idea to include a PathPing sample output and explain the columns therin. I was looking for the explanation of RTT on each hop and how it is different from the RTT on a normal Ping command. Appreciate someone giving a feedback on this.

Sanjiv Asthana 12/20/2003 4:50:58 AM

A great tool that allow SYS ADM's and ENG's to have a general idea of potential network latency problems or failures. Thus allowing them to communicate affectively to their respective Network team about IP routing related issues (once a baseline is established).

Marcus Reese 5/23/2001 8:58:43 AM



I read Sean Daily's Remote Possibilities: "PathPing: Traceroute on Steroids" (November 2000). From what I read on Microsoft TechNet, I should be able to find PathPing in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit. When I install the resource kit on a Windows NT 4.0 machine (we run only NT 4.0), I don't find PathPing anywhere. Where can I get this program?


­Eric N. Moyer 12/13/2000 10:23:01 AM



PathPing isn't part of the resource kit or the support tools; it's included with the Win2K OS. On any Win2K system, you'll find the program in the \\%systemroot%\\system32 folder.

--Sean Daily

Sean Daily 12/13/2000 10:19:35 AM

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