rTraceroute: Réunion Traceroute Visualisation
This tool addresses the need for better visualization and analysis of Internet routing data for network researchers and administrators, but it is incremental as it builds on existing Traceroute functionality.
The authors tackled the problem of limited information and lack of graphical tools for analyzing Traceroute data by developing rTraceroute, a tool that can process over 1,000 Traceroute results to map paths, identify MPLS links, and provide usage statistics for routes.
Traceroute is the main tools to explore Internet path. It provides limited information about each node along the path. However, Traceroute cannot go further in statistics analysis, or \emph{Man-Machine Interface (MMI)}. Indeed, there are no graphical tool that is able to draw all paths used by IP routes. We present a new tool that can handle more than 1,000 Traceroute results, map them, identify graphically MPLS links, get information of usage of all routes (in percent) to improve the knowledge between countries' links. rTraceroute want to go deeper in usage of atomic traces. In this paper, we will discuss the concept of rTraceroute and present some example of usage.