rTraceroute: R\'eunion Traceroute Visualisation

TL;DR

rTraceroute is a visualization tool that enhances traceroute analysis by mapping multiple paths, identifying MPLS links, and providing usage statistics to improve understanding of Internet routes and inter-country links.

Contribution

The paper introduces rTraceroute, a novel graphical tool capable of handling large traceroute datasets and providing detailed visual and statistical analysis of network paths.

Findings

Successfully visualizes over 1,000 traceroute results

Identifies MPLS links graphically

Provides route usage statistics in percentage

Abstract

Traceroute is the main tools to explore Internet path. It provides limited information about each node along the path. However, Traceroute cannot go further in statistics analysis, or \emph{Man-Machine Interface (MMI)}. Indeed, there are no graphical tool that is able to draw all paths used by IP routes. We present a new tool that can handle more than 1,000 Traceroute results, map them, identify graphically MPLS links, get information of usage of all routes (in percent) to improve the knowledge between countries' links. rTraceroute want to go deeper in usage of atomic traces. In this paper, we will discuss the concept of rTraceroute and present some example of usage.