HNGlance

Top Best New Show

Show HN: A Minimal Traceroute Implementation

https://github.com/adder46/traceroute

by adder46 • 5 years ago

4 2 5 years ago

GI

Related Stories

Loading related stories...

Comments

2

adder46• 5 years ago

I wanted to share a very small traceroute implementation I wrote using Python. It is asynchronous and it supports probing over UDP or ICMP. It was a good networking exercise.

jjice• 5 years ago

I implemented traceroute for a networking class at one point and the most interesting part to me was how it worked. I had used traceroute and MTR for VPN debugging in the past, but had no clue how it could get all the routing nodes. Seeing that it just increased the TTL was shocking. I was overcomplicating it significantly in my head. After that, working with raw sockets was a nice exercise in general.

Source preview

github.com

HNGlance

© 2024-2026 HN Glance. Story content belongs to its original sources.

Privacy
Terms