Trippy

A network diagnostic tool, inspired by mtr.

Features

Feature status and high level roadmap:

• Trace: ICMP protocol (✅)
• Trace: Adjustable packet size (✅)
• Trace: Adjustable payload pattern (✅)
• Trace: Adjustable starting and ended time-to-live values (✅)
• Trace: Adjustable minimum and maximum round trip time (✅)
• Trace: Adjustable round end grace period (✅)
• Trace: Adjustable maximum number of unknown hops (✅)
• Trace: Adjustable source port for UDP (✅)
• Trace: UDP protocol (✅)
• Trace: TCP protocol (✅)
• Trace: SCTP protocol (#41)
• Trace: IPv6 (#35)
• Trace: MPLS (#33)
• Trace: Adjustable DSCP IP header (#38)
• Trace: Adjustable network interface binding (#42)
• Trace: Adjustable target port for UDP/TCP (#43)
• Trace: Capabilities awareness (✅)
• Tui: Display core hop statistics (✅)
• Tui: hop navigation (✅)
• Tui: Pause display (✅)
• Tui: Help dialog (✅)
• Tui: Allow preserving screen on exit (✅)
• Tui: Adjustable refresh rate (✅)
• Tui: RTT history per hop (✅)
• Tui: RTT frequency histogram per hop (✅)
• Tui: Display multiple hosts per hop (✅)
• Tui: Reset statistics (✅)
• Tui: show Jitter (#39)
• Tui: show top-N hosts per hop (✅)
• Tui: AS lookup (✅)
• DNS: Basic reverse DNS lookup (✅)
• DNS: Non-blocking DNS resolver (✅)
• Report: JSON report mode (✅)
• Report: CSV report mode (✅)
• Report: Tabular report mode (✅)
• Report: Streaming text mode (✅)

Distributions

Cargo

cargo install trippy

Docker (Linux only)

docker run -it fujiapple/trippy www.bitwizard.nl

Platforms

Trippy has been (lightly...) tested on the following platforms:

Privileges

Trippy uses a raw socket which require elevated privileges. Enabling the required privilege can be achieved in several ways, including:

1: Run as root user via sudo:

sudo trip www.bitwizard.nl

2: chown trip as the root user and set the setuid bit:

sudo chown root $(which trip) && sudo chmod +s $(which trip)

3: [Linux only] Set the CAP_NET_RAW capability:

sudo setcap CAP_NET_RAW+p $(which trip)

Trippy is a capability aware application and will add CAP_NET_RAW to the effective set if it is present in the allowed set. Note that trippy will drop all capabilities after creating the raw socket.

Usage Examples

Basic usage with default parameters:

trip www.bitwizard.nl

Trace using the udp protocol:

trip www.bitwizard.nl -p udp

Trace with a minimum round time of 250ms and a grace period of 50ms:

trip www.bitwizard.nl -i 250ms -g 50ms

Trace with a custom first and maximum time-to-live:

trip www.bitwizard.nl --first-ttl 2 --max-ttl 10

Generate a json (or csv, pretty, markdown) tracing report with 5 rounds of data:

trip www.bitwizard.nl -m json -c 5

Perform DNS queries using the google DNS server (or cloudflare, system, resolv):

trip www.bitwizard.nl -r google

Lookup AS information for all discovered IP addresses (not yet available for the system resolver, see #66):

trip www.bitwizard.nl -r google -z

Reference

USAGE:
    trip [OPTIONS] <HOSTNAME>

ARGS:
    <HOSTNAME>    The hostname or IP to scan

OPTIONS:
    -a, --tui-address-mode <TUI_ADDRESS_MODE>
            How to render addresses [default: host] [possible values: ip, host,
            both]

    -c, --report-cycles <REPORT_CYCLES>
            The number of report cycles to run [default: 10]

        --dns-timeout <DNS_TIMEOUT>
            The maximum time to wait to perform DNS queries [default: 5s]

        --first-ttl <FIRST_TTL>
            The TTL to start from [default: 1]

    -g, --grace-duration <GRACE_DURATION>
            The period of time to wait for additional ICMP responses after the
            target has responded [default: 100ms]

    -h, --help
            Print help information

    -i, --min-round-duration <MIN_ROUND_DURATION>
            The minimum duration of every round [default: 1s]

    -I, --max-round-duration <MAX_ROUND_DURATION>
            The maximum duration of every round [default: 1s]

        --initial-sequence <INITIAL_SEQUENCE>
            The initial sequence number [default: 33000]

    -m, --mode <MODE>
            Output mode [default: tui] [possible values: tui, stream, pretty,
            markdown, csv, json]

    -p, --protocol <PROTOCOL>
            Tracing protocol [default: icmp] [possible values: icmp, udp, tcp]

        --packet-size <PACKET_SIZE>
            The size of IP packet to send (IP header + ICMP header + payload)
            [default: 84]

        --payload-pattern <PAYLOAD_PATTERN>
            The repeating pattern in the payload of the ICMP packet [default: 0]

    -r, --dns-resolve-method <DNS_RESOLVE_METHOD>
            How to perform DNS queries [default: system] [possible values:
            system, resolv, google, cloudflare]

        --read-timeout <READ_TIMEOUT>
            The socket read timeout [default: 10ms]

        --source-port <SOURCE_PORT>
            The source port (TCP & UDP only)

    -t, --max-ttl <MAX_TTL>
            The maximum number of hops [default: 64]

        --tui-max-addresses-per-hop <TUI_MAX_ADDRESSES_PER_HOP>
            The maximum number of addresses to show per hop

        --tui-preserve-screen
            Preserve the screen on exit

        --tui-refresh-rate <TUI_REFRESH_RATE>
            The TUI refresh rate [default: 100ms]

    -U, --max-inflight <MAX_INFLIGHT>
            The maximum number of in-flight ICMP echo requests [default: 24]

    -V, --version
            Print version information

    -z, --dns-lookup-as-info
            Lookup autonomous system (AS) information during DNS queries

Acknowledgement

Trippy is made possible by tui-rs , crossterm & pnet as well as several common foundational Rust libraries. It also draws heavily from mtr.

The AS data is retrieved from the IP to ASN Mapping Service provided by Team Cymru.

Keyboard Controls

Press h in the Tui to display te keyboard controls.

License

This project is distributed under the terms of the Apache License (Version 2.0).

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in time by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

See LICENSE for details.

Copyright 2022 Trippy Contributors