Released on = July 25, 2007, 2:12 am

Press Release Author = WinCatalog.com

Industry = Internet & Online

Press Release Summary = Free Windows tool determines the route packets travel across
an IP network

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July 16, 2007

For Immediate Release

For more information contact:

Software Institute
http://www.softinstitute.com/

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Test communication with remote computer and determine which route the packets travel
across an IP network between your PC and the remote host.



If you cannot connect to a certain computer over a network, there might be something
wrong with the remote computer or with your Internet connection. Or maybe your
router needs a reset. Or your Internet provider could be having a temporarily
problem that they'll surely solve, telling you to please be patient and don't bother
calling. Or maybe it's the fault of one of the routers, switches, access points,
servers, or other network hosts that are in between you and the remote computer. How
would you know for sure?



In the beginning of the Internet, a tool called traceroute was introduced in Unix.
Traceroute does exactly what its name suggests: it traces the route of IP packets
while they travel from your PC to the remote destination. The tool essentially
allows you to see exactly where the connectivity problem is, no matter how far it is
from your computer. The last host to respond to traceroute is the last host that is
working properly. The first one that fails to respond is the faulty one.



There is a free tool called tracert.exe that comes with most versions of Windows.
You can use this tool to traceroute the remote PC. To use tracert.exe, you would
typically invoke a command line, which would open a black console window, and type
tracert.exe followed with IP address of the computer you want to check. Usually you
would get a response right in the console window in a matter of seconds. You get the
response in a Spartan-looking black console window.



While there's nothing particularly wrong in using the supplied tracert.exe, we at
Soft Institute wrapped the same thing into a much more convenient package. SI Trace
provides clearly legible, well formatted output by providing easy to understand
numbers and well explained results. It displays all the vital information from
classic Unix traceroute and Windows tracert commands, and allows you to check more
than one computer by simply selecting their address from a combo box. Thanks to its
user-friendly, convenient user interface, SI Trace is much more convenient to use
than Windows tracert.exe.



SI Trace is part of Soft Institute's line of network tools, and integrates well with
other products, such as SI Ping and SI Lookup. You can simply click on an IP address
or Web name of any host that is pinged or traced in order to get information about
the owner and location of that host.



SoftInstitute releases well-designed, simple to use products that help computer
users solve one particular problem. Our products are free, and typically perform
just one task, such as ping, traceroute, whois or lookup, but do it in a convenient
manner.

Web Site = http://www.softinstitute.com/soft/sitrace.htm

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