On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:12:55 -0500 (CDT), Mike Miller wrote: > I am upgrading a machine from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 and the system is > telling me that traceroute is no longer available as an Ubuntu > package. > I suppose traceroute is very old school and there is some new thing > that I > don't know about. Is that correct? Maybe someone here will know. > I've > been using traceroute forever and it seems like one of the important > UNIX > tools that everyone would use. Thanks. > > Mike I would highly suggest "MyTraceroute" or mtr for short. It seems like traceroute's unofficial successor: "mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool." If I interpret packages.ubuntu.com correctly, the ncurses interface (mtr-tiny?) is in maverick (I don't know much about ubuntu's packaging) http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ -Jeremy