From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: tracepath, traceroute and mtr Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 10:17:40 +0100 Message-ID: <2E850020-8015-42D2-897D-AA39031326EC@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8357543485202713452==" List-Id: --===============8357543485202713452== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, > On 21 May 2021, at 10:16, Peter M=C3=BCller wr= ote: >=20 > Hello development folks, >=20 > for tracing back connections, we currently seem to have multiple utilities = available in IPFire 2.x: >=20 > (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 >=20 > 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 thi= ng 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 b= asic operating system tools. -Michael >=20 > Thanks, and best regards, > Peter M=C3=BCller --===============8357543485202713452==--