Which of the following commands displays the network path between two devices?

ping sends ICMP echo requests to test reachability and measure latency to a single host, but does not reveal intermediate hops along the route.

tracert (Windows) and traceroute (Linux/macOS) work by sending packets with incrementing TTL values, causing each router along the path to return an ICMP Time Exceeded message. This reveals every intermediate hop, its IP address, and round-trip latency, giving a full view of the network path between two devices.

netstat displays active TCP/UDP connections, listening ports, and network statistics on the local machine - not the path to a remote device.

route displays or modifies the local IP routing table on the host, not the actual end-to-end path packets travel across the network.