tracepath, traceroute and mtr

tracepath, traceroute and mtr

[Peter Müller]

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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. :-)

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller

Re: tracepath, traceroute and mtr

[Michael Tremer]

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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

Re: tracepath, traceroute and mtr

[Peter Müller]

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Hello Michael,

thanks for your reply.

> 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?

Because I accidentally opened the same manpage twice, thinking tracepath and traceroute providing exactly
the same functionality. m(

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

Yes, I have noticed that as well by now. Sorry for the noise.

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller