<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"
xml:id="man.traceroute6">

  <refentryinfo>
    <title>traceroute6</title>
    <productname>iputils</productname>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>
      <application>traceroute6</application>
    </refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class='manual'>iputils</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>traceroute6</refname>
    <refpurpose>traces path to a network host</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis sepchar=" ">
      <command>traceroute6</command>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        <option>-dnrvV</option>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        <option>-i
        <replaceable>interface</replaceable></option>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        <option>-m
        <replaceable>max_ttl</replaceable></option>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        <option>-p
        <replaceable>port</replaceable></option>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        <option>-q
        <replaceable>max_probes</replaceable></option>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        <option>-s
        <replaceable>source</replaceable></option>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
        <option>-w
        <replaceable>wait time</replaceable></option>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="req" rep="norepeat">destination</arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">size</arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsection>
    <info>
      <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    </info>
    <para>Description can be found in
    <citerefentry>
      <refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle>
      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    </citerefentry>, all the references to IP replaced to IPv6.
    It is needless to copy the description from there.</para>
  </refsection>

  <refsect1 id='see_also'>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
    <citerefentry>
      <refentrytitle>traceroute</refentrytitle>
      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    </citerefentry>,
    <citerefentry>
      <refentrytitle>tracepath</refentrytitle>
      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    </citerefentry>,
    <citerefentry>
      <refentrytitle>ping</refentrytitle>
      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    </citerefentry>.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='history'>
    <title>HISTORY</title>
    <para>This program has long history. Author of
    <command>traceroute</command> is Van Jacobson and it first
    appeared in 1988. This clone is based on a port of
    <command>traceroute</command> to IPv6 published in NRL IPv6
    distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported to Linux by Pedro
    Roque. After this it was kept in sync by Alexey Kuznetsov
    &lt;kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru&gt;. And eventually entered
    <emphasis remap="B">iputils</emphasis> package.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='security'>
    <title>SECURITY</title>
    <para>
    <command>traceroute6</command> requires CAP_NET_RAW capability
    to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='availability'>
    <title>AVAILABILITY</title>
    <para>
    <command>traceroute6</command> is part of
    <emphasis remap='I'>iputils</emphasis> package.</para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>
