You can perform a traceroute action on a cellular or ethernet robot.
Traceroute action
Once selected, the form looks like so:
Traceroute form action
The form look like this, there are several inputs fields:
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Host: enter the hostname or ip address on which you want to perform a traceroute action.
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Maximum hops: maximum number of hops desired. If traceroute to your host need 14 hops and you set the max hops to 3, you only get the first three. Min: 1, max: 255.
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Packet size: packet size. Min: 1, max: 1500.
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Packets number: number of packets to send at each hop. Min: 1, max: 100.
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Protocol: protocol to perform traceroute. For TCP packet size is ignored since TCP SYN packet can not contain data.
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Show IP: show IP. By default if traceroute gets the hostname it display it without IP. With this option you force the display of the IP.
Result
See below an example of a result:
KPIs & Metrics
All KPIs generated are available on this page KPIs and metrics in the traceroute section.
Metric name
cellular_traceroute
ethernet_traceroute
| Tags | Fields | ||
| src_host | Source host | total_hops | Total number of hops to reach the destination host |
| dst_host | Destination host | hop_packet_loss_percent | Percent of packets loss for current hop |
| type_of_service | Type of service field in IP header | hop_last_res_time_ms | Latest response time for current hop |
| packets_per_hop | Packets sent per hop | hop_avg_res_time_ms | Average response time for current hop |
| packet_size_bytes | Packet size | hop_min_res_time_ms | Minimum response time for current hop |
| bit_pattern | Bit pattern used in payload | hop_max_res_time_ms | Maximum response time for current hop |
| hop_number | The number of the current hop | hop_standard_deviation_ms | Standard deviation for current hop. See: How to interpret standard deviation ? |
| hop_host | Hostname or IP for the current hop | ||
| hop_nb_packets_sent | Number of packets sent for the current hop |
The standard deviation cannot be negative. Close to 0 means that the values are very little dispersed around the mean. The further the values are from the mean, the higher is the standard deviation.
| hop_avg_res_time_ms | 84.15 |
| hop_min_res_time_ms | 84.03 |
| hop_max_res_time_ms | 84.27 |
| hop_standard_deviation_ms | 0.08 |
As you can see, the more uniform the response time values are, the closer the standard deviation will be to zero.
| hop_avg_res_time_ms | 19.61 |
| hop_min_res_time_ms | 14.08 |
| hop_max_res_time_ms | 64.69 |
| hop_standard_deviation_ms | 15.86 |
Here you can see that the more heterogeneous the response time values are, the higher the standard deviation will be.