Archive for August, 2007

Understanding Traceroute – A Four-part Series

There are a number of popular misconceptions and misunderstandings about traceroutes. Traceroutes are used by computer networks, small ones like in your office or large-scale ones like the Internet, to determine which route will be taken by packets (a block of data) sent across IP (Internet Protocol suite) networks. Traceroutes are often used for network troubleshooting; [...]