MTR

What is MTR?

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 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. For a preview take a look at the screenshots.

mtr is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the COPYING file for details.

Where to get MTR

You can get MTR from the BitWizard FTP site at ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ .

Compatibility

Mtr uses autoconf. This should allow compatibility with a large range of operating systems. Feel free to report problems. We can then try to iron them out.

I don't have much experience in using autoconf. Therefore I'm eager to learn more about it, as it seems a very useful tool. I've been editing small sections of the autoconf files, but I welcome suggestions on how to do things better. There usually IS a way to do it better....

Compiling MTR

Compiling mtr should be as easy as "make". If it is harder for you, your computer is misconfigured, or there is a problem with mtr that we should take care of. Please report this kind of problems.

Questions / bugs / Mailing list.

If you have a question, please send an Email to the mailing list. The mailing list is <name-of-the-program>@BitWizard.nl . Please help me keep the address of the list "off the internet" to prevent spam. Add -subscribe to the mailing list address (before the @) to subscribe. Or use -help to get a help message from the mailing list software. mtr has moved to launchpad as the bug tracking system. If you have a bug, preferably with a patch to fix it please enter it into the tracking system. MTR bugtracking at Launchpad.

Binary distributions

Ryan Weaver has been making RPMs for mtr. He puts them on his ftp site, which I mirror onto ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/mtr/rpms/ .
kanedaaa builds slackware packages at: http://kaneda.bohater.net/slackware/packages/.
The freeBSD team makes binaries at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/net/ Substitute the correct packages-..-current if you are running a "-current" version. If anybody can tell me how I can get mirror to flatten the symlinks that they use, I'll mirror them here at BitWizard.
The debian team makes binaries at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/mtr_0.39-1.deb The mirror worked in 30 seconds, no problems there. So you can get the package from the BitWizard site too.
Michael Collard no longer builds and maintains x64_64 binaries at: http://members.iinet.net.au/~quadfour/projects.html. (the link is dead. I don't expect Michael to still do this, If he does and you know the new location, tell me.)

If you want to contribute binaries in a way similar to this, feel free to volunteer.

History

MTR was written by Matt Kimball, with contributions by many people. Take a look at the "AUTHORS" file in the distribution. Roger Wolff took over maintenance of MTR in october 1998.

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