• Amazon.com
  
• Amazon.ca
  
• Barnes & Noble
  
• Chapters/Indigo
  
• InformIT
  
• Wal-Mart

Download an excerpt from the book. Click here

A Graphical traceroute for X

Every so often, I remember to play with this very cool alternative to the command line tool, traceroute.

It's called xtraceroute and it gives you a cool, graphical representation of a traceroute on a 3D Earth which you can rotate every which way just by grabbing the graphic and pulling it one way or the other.  Debian types can "apt-get xtraceroute" while Mandrake users can do a "urpmi xtraceroute".   Others can get their own copy by heading on over to:

     http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3august/xt/index.html

If you want a shot of it in action, click yon link below on my website.

     http://www.marcelgagne.com/images/xtraceroute.jpg

We now return you to our regularly scheduled Linux work.