Installing MTR on an OS X system

The My traceroute (MTR) program combines functionality found in the ping and traceroute programs to provide a useful tool to determine where packet loss may be occurring in a network path between source and destination systems. It runs on Linux, OS X/macOS, and Microsoft Windows systems. To install it on an OS X/macOS system, you can compile the source code into an executable program or you can use a package management system, such as Homebrew, for installing the software. If you install Homebrew, you can use the command brew install mtr to install MTR.

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$ brew install mtr
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/mtr-0.87.el_capitan.bott
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==> Pouring mtr-0.87.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
mtr requires root privileges so you will need to run `sudo mtr`.
You should be certain that you trust any software you grant root privileges.
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/mtr/0.87: 8 files, 137.4KB
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After installing mtr, you can run the program with the command sudo /usr/local/sbin/mtr. E.g.:

$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/mtr -c 5 --report google.com
Password:
Start: Sun May  7 15:30:47 2017
HOST: GSSLA15122293               Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|--                            0.0%     5    1.2   1.3   1.2   1.6   0.0
  2.|-- 192.168.1.1                0.0%     5    6.9   6.8   5.4   8.5   1.2
  3.|-- 192.168.0.1                0.0%     5   21.1  12.3   4.8  21.1   8.1
  4.|-- 10.173.0.1                 0.0%     5   22.9  17.7  14.0  22.9   3.3
  5.|-- 172.23.112.145             0.0%     5   25.8  21.7  15.5  26.5   4.6
  6.|-- 172.23.112.154             0.0%     5   20.1  23.4  19.3  29.7   4.7
  7.|-- te0-16-0-24.ccr41.iad02.a  0.0%     5   30.8  25.4  21.7  30.8   3.8
  8.|-- tata.iad02.atlas.cogentco  0.0%     5   43.5  39.4  22.0  71.4  19.5
  9.|-- 72.14.198.28               0.0%     5   28.9  27.6  19.6  36.3   6.4
 10.|-- 108.170.240.97             0.0%     5   24.0  24.1  18.0  32.4   5.1
 11.|-- 216.239.54.15              0.0%     5   25.8  29.6  25.8  31.5   2.2
 12.|-- google.com                 0.0%     5   40.4  26.6  19.7  40.4   8.1
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