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<refentry id="traceroute6">
    <refentryinfo>
        <productname>Linux</productname>
        <title>System Administration</title>
        <date>27 September 2002</date>
    </refentryinfo>
	<refmeta>
		<refentrytitle>traceroute6</refentrytitle>
		<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
	</refmeta>
	<refnamediv>
		<refname>traceroute6</refname>
		<refpurpose>traces path to a network host</refpurpose>
	</refnamediv>
	<refsynopsisdiv>
		<cmdsynopsis>
			<command>traceroute6</command>
			<group>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-d</option></arg>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-n</option></arg>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-r</option></arg>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-v</option></arg>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-V</option></arg>
			</group>
			<group>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-i</option> <replaceable
					>interface</replaceable>
			</arg>
			</group>
			<group>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-m</option> <replaceable
					>max_ttl</replaceable>
				</arg>
			</group>
			<group>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-p</option> <replaceable
					>port</replaceable>
				</arg>
			</group>
			<group>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-q</option> <replaceable
					>max_probes</replaceable>
				</arg>
			</group>
			<group>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-s</option> <replaceable
					>source</replaceable>
				</arg>
			</group>
			<group>
				<arg choice="plain"><option>-w</option> <replaceable
					>time</replaceable>
				</arg>
			</group>
			<arg choice="plain">
				<replaceable>destination</replaceable>
			</arg>
			<arg choice="opt">
				<replaceable>size</replaceable>
			</arg>
		</cmdsynopsis>
	</refsynopsisdiv>
	
	<refsection>
		
		<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
		
<para>Description can be found in <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>, all the references to IP replaced to IPv6. It is
needless to copy the description from there.</para>
	</refsection>
	
	<refsection>
		
		<title>SEE ALSO</title>
		
<para><citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>tracepath</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>ping</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>.</para>
	</refsection>
	
	<refsection>
		
		<title>HISTORY</title>
		
<para>This program has long history. 
Author of <command>traceroute</command> is
Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is based
on a port of <command>traceroute</command> 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 <address>
<firstname>Alexey</firstname> <surname>Kuznetsov</surname><email
>kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru</email></address>. And eventually
entered <application>iputils</application> package.</para>
	</refsection>
	
	<refsection>
		
		<title>SECURITY</title>
		
<para><command>tracepath6</command> requires <constant
>CAP_NET_RAWIO</constant> capability to be executed. It is safe to be 
used as set-uid root.</para>
	</refsection>
	
	<refsection>
		
		<title>AVAILABILITY</title>
		
<para><command>traceroute6</command> is part 
of <application>iputils</application> package and the
latest versions are available in source form for anonymous via <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/iputils-current.tar.gz"/>.</para>
	</refsection>
</refentry>

