mtr
Website: https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
Project: https://github.com/traviscross/mtr
Author: Matt Kimball and Roger Wolff
Alternative to: traceroute, ping
License: GPL-2.0
Language: C
Page updated: 2026-03-15
mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a
single network diagnostic tool.
As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine.
