traviscross/mtr

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3337 stars · 376 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

mtr is a network diagnostic tool that combines traceroute and ping, probing each hop along the route to a destination and printing live latency and packet-loss statistics. It runs in a terminal (with optional GTK UI) and is written in C, distributed under GPL-2.0.

Use cases

• diagnose where packets are being dropped along a network path
• measure latency to each hop between my machine and a server
• combine traceroute and ping in one tool
• monitor network route quality over time
• troubleshoot intermittent connectivity to a host
• find which router hop is causing slow connections

When to choose

• you need continuous, per-hop latency and loss statistics rather than a one-shot traceroute
• you want a lightweight terminal tool that works on Linux, macOS, and Unix systems
• you are debugging routing or ISP-level network problems

When to avoid

• you need a GUI-first network analyzer with packet capture like Wireshark
• you are on Windows without WSL, since native Windows support is unavailable
• you need application-layer (HTTP/DNS) diagnostics rather than ICMP-level path analysis

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

networking monitoring developer-tools networking developer-tools cli cross-platform traceroute ping network-diagnostics icmp c command-line linux macos

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