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tracert

Cross-platform library for traceroute and ping

12 releases (breaking)

0.8.0 May 19, 2024
0.7.0 Aug 17, 2023
0.6.0 Aug 16, 2023
0.5.2 Jul 16, 2023
0.3.1 May 7, 2022

#1720 in Network programming

MIT license

85KB
2K SLoC

tracert Crates.io License

Cross-platform library for traceroute and ping. Written in Rust.

Features

  • traceroute
    • IPv4 UDP
    • IPv6 UDP
  • ping
    • IPv4 ICMPv4
    • IPv6 ICMPv6
    • IPv4 UDP
    • IPv6 UDP
    • IPv4 TCP
    • IPv6 TCP

Usage

Add tracert to your dependencies

[dependencies]
tracert = "0.8"

Note for Windows users

You may need to set up firewall rules that allow ICMP Time-to-live Exceeded and ICMP Destination (Port) Unreachable packets to be received.

netsh example

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="All ICMP v4" dir=in action=allow protocol=icmpv4:any,any
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="All ICMP v6" dir=in action=allow protocol=icmpv6:any,any

Additional Notes

This library requires the ability to create raw sockets. Execute with administrator privileges.

Dependencies

~3–32MB
~476K SLoC