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A route tracing tool that combines features of the ping and tracert
commands with additional information that neither of those commands provides.
The pathping command sends packets to each router on the way to a final
destination over a period of time, and then computes results based on the
packets returned from each hop. Since pathping shows the degree of
packet loss at any given router or link, you can determine which routers or
links might be causing network problems. pathping [-n] [-h maximum_hops] [-g host-list]
[-p period] [-q num_queries [-w timeout]
[-T] [-R] target_name Parameters -n Does not resolve addresses to host names. -h maximum_hops Specifies maximum number of hops to search for the target. Default is 30
hops. -g host-list Allows consecutive computers to be separated by intermediate gateways (loose
source route) along host-list. -p period Specifies number of milliseconds to wait between consecutive pings. Default
is 250 milliseconds (1/4 second). -q num_queries Specifies number of queries to each computer along the route. Default is
100. -w timeout Specifies number of milliseconds to wait for each reply. Default is 3000
milliseconds (3 seconds). -T Attaches a layer-2 priority tag (for example, 802.1p) to the ping packets
that it sends to each of the network devices along the route. This helps
identify network devices that do not have layer-2 priority configured. This
parameter must be capitalized. -R Checks to see if each network device along the route supports the Resource
Reservation Setup Protocol (RSVP), which allows the host computer to reserve a
certain amount of bandwidth for a data stream. This parameter must be
capitalized. target_name Specifies the destination endpoint, identified either by IP address or host
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