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28.\"     $Id: traceroute6.8,v 1.1.1.1 1999/08/08 23:32:38 itojun Exp $
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31.Dd May 17, 1998
32.Dt TRACEROUTE6 8
33.Os
34.\"
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm traceroute6
37.Nd "print the route IPv6 packets will take to the destination"
38.\"
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Op Fl dlnrv
42.Op Fl m Ar hoplimit
43.Op Fl p Ar port
44.Op Fl q Ar probes
45.Op Fl s Ar src
46.Op Fl w Ar waittime
47.\"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49.Bl -tag -width Ds
50.It Fl d
51Debug mode.
52.It Fl m Ar hoplimit
53Specify maximum hoplimit.
54.It Fl l
55Print both host hostnames and numeric addresses.
56Normally
57.Nm
58prints only hostnames if
59.Fl n
60is not specified, and only numeric addresses if
61.Fl n
62is specified.
63.It Fl n
64Do not resolve numeric address to hostname.
65.It Fl p Ar port
66Set UDP port number to
67.Ar port .
68.It Fl q Ar probes
69Set the number of probe per hop count to
70.Ar probes .
71.It Fl r
72.It Fl s Ar src
73.Ar Src
74specifies the source IPv6 address to be used.
75.It Fl v
76Be verbose.
77.It Fl w Ar waittime
78Specify the delay time between probes.
79.El
80.\"
81.Sh RETURN VALUES
82The
83.Nm
84command will exit with 0 on success, and non-zero on errors.
85.\"
86.Sh SEE ALSO
87.Xr ping 8 ,
88.Xr ping6 8 ,
89.Xr traceroute 8
90.\"
91.Sh HISTORY
92The
93.Nm
94command first appeared in WIDE hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit.
95.Pp
96IPv6 and IPsec support based on the KAME Project (http://www.kame.net/) stack
97was initially integrated into
98.Fx 4.0
99