Hello,

> On 21 May 2021, at 10:16, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello development folks,
> 
> for tracing back connections, we currently seem to have multiple utilities available in IPFire 2.x:
> 
> (a) tracepath, which comes as part of the iputils package
> (b) traceroute, which can be installed as an add-on
> (c) mtr, being available as an add-on as well
> 
> While none of these hurt, I would like to ask for opinions if we can/should drop one of them. Just
> a minor issue, but having three tools around that basically do the same thing does not really seem to
> be necessary to me. :-)

Why are you suddenly in such a mood to drop so much functionality?

traceroute and tracepath do totally different things and we should not drop basic operating system tools.

-Michael

> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller