CV0-003 · Question #228
Which of the following will use ICMP to successively check hops between the source and destination?
The correct answer is A. traceroute. traceroute uses ICMP to probe each successive hop between source and destination, revealing the full path packets take across a network.
Question
Which of the following will use ICMP to successively check hops between the source and destination?
Options
- Atraceroute
- Bnetstat
- Cdig
- Droute
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Why each option
traceroute uses ICMP to probe each successive hop between source and destination, revealing the full path packets take across a network.
traceroute sends probe packets with incrementally increasing TTL values, causing each intermediate router to return an ICMP 'Time Exceeded' message that identifies that hop. This makes it the standard tool for diagnosing routing paths and pinpointing where latency or packet loss occurs between two endpoints.
netstat displays active network connections, routing tables, and interface statistics but does not send ICMP probes or trace hops between source and destination.
dig is a DNS lookup utility used to query name servers for domain resolution and does not use ICMP or trace network paths.
route is used to view or modify the local IP routing table on a host and does not send ICMP packets to trace a path to a remote destination.
Concept tested: Network path tracing using ICMP with traceroute
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/tracert
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