Trace Route

Trace Route is a tiny and portable application you can use to view network routing information after establishing a link between your computer and a remote machine. It features a few settings that can be easily configured.

Portable tool with a simple GUI

The entire program's wrapped in a single .exe file that you can copy to a custom directory on the disk or to a removable storage device, in order to seamlessly run Trace Route on any workstation with minimum effort and no previous installers. It remembers your configuration on exit and doesn't create additional files on the HDD. It doesn't need DLLs to launch, nor add new entries to the Windows registry.
When it comes to the interface, the application adopts a classical window with a simple structure, where all you have to do is enter the IP address of the target machine to send the TraceRoute command.

Configure TraceRoute settings

Before doing so, you can configure trace settings when it comes to the number of pings and maximum hops, timeout (in seconds), and whether or not to resolve DNS.
Once the scanner is over, you can view routing information in the main app window, namely the IP address, minimum, maximum and average values, as well as the amount of lost packets (in percentage) for each entry of the target host.
Unfortunately, the program doesn't integrate options for copying data to the Clipboard, exporting it to file, or printing it. There are no other notable options available here.

Evaluation and conclusion

It didn't put a strain on the overall performance of the computer in our tests, thanks to the fact that it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly. All in all, Trace Route offers a simple solution for discovering network routing information.