Which of the following commands will help identify a broken router between the local and the remote machine?

`ps` displays information about running processes on the local system, which is unrelated to network path diagnostics.

`netstat` shows local network connections, routing tables, and interface statistics, but it does not trace the path to a remote machine.

`nslookup` is used to query Domain Name System (DNS) servers for name resolution, not for tracing network paths.

`ifconfig` configures or displays network interface parameters on the local machine and cannot be used to identify issues on remote routers along a path.

`traceroute` sends packets with incrementally increasing Time-To-Live (TTL) values, causing each intermediate router to respond with an ICMP Time Exceeded message. By displaying the IP addresses of these responding routers, it reveals the full path taken by packets and can identify where connectivity breaks down or becomes slow.