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# Trippy
A network diagnostic tool, inspired by [mtr](https://github.com/traviscross/mtr).
<img src="assets/trippy-0.3.0-08-05-2022.gif" alt="trippy"/>
Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the diagnosis of network issues.
## Features
- Trace using multiple protocols:
- `ICMP`, `UDP` & `TCP`
- `IPv4` & `IPv6`
- Customizable tracing options:
- packet size & payload pattern
- start and maximum time-to-live (TTL)
- minimum and maximum round duration
- round end grace period & maximum number of unknown hops
- source & destination port (`TCP` & `UDP`)
- Equal Cost Multi-path Routing strategies (`classic`, `paris` and `dublin`)
- source address and source interface
- `TOS` (aka `DSCP + ECN`)
- Tui interface:
- Trace multiple targets simultaneously from a single instance of Trippy
- Per hop stats (sent, received, loss%, last, avg, best, worst, stddev & status)
- Per hop round-trip-time (RTT) history and frequency distributing charts
- Chart of RTT for all hops in a trace with zooming capability
- Customizable color theme & key bindings
- Multiple hosts per hop with ability to cap display to N hosts and show frequency %
- Freeze/unfreeze the Tui, reset the stats, flush the cache, preserve screen on exit
- Responsive UI with adjustable refresh rate
- DNS:
- use system, external (Google `8.8.8.8` or Cloudflare `1.1.1.1`) or custom resolver
- Lazy reverse DNS queries
- Lookup [autonomous system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)) number (ASN) and name
- Generate tracing reports:
- `json`, `csv` & tabular (pretty-printed and markdown)
- configurable reporting cycles
- Runs on multiple platform (macOS, Linux, NetBSD, Windows)
- Capabilities aware application (Linux only)
## Distributions
### Cargo
[](https://crates.io/crates/trippy/0.7.0)
```shell
cargo install trippy
```
### Homebrew
[](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/trippy)
```shell
brew install trippy
```
### NetBSD
[](https://repology.org/project/trippy/versions)
```shell
pkgin install trippy
```
### Pacman (Arch Linux)
[](https://repology.org/project/trippy/versions)
```shell
pacman -S trippy
```
### Snap
[](https://snapcraft.io/trippy)
```shell
snap install trippy
```
### Docker
[](https://hub.docker.com/r/fujiapple/trippy/)
```shell
docker run -it fujiapple/trippy
```
## Platforms
Trippy has been (lightly...) tested on the following platforms:
### IPv4
| Linux | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| macOS | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| NetBSD | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| OpenBSD | ⏳ | ⏳ | ⏳ | See [#213](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/213) |
| FreeBSD | ⏳ | ⏳ | ⏳ | See [#214](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/214) |
| Windows | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | See [#98](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/98) |
### IPv6
| Linux | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| macOS | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| NetBSD | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| OpenBSD | ⏳ | ⏳ | ⏳ | See [#213](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/213) |
| FreeBSD | ⏳ | ⏳ | ⏳ | See [#214](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/214) |
| Windows | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | See [#98](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/98) |
## Equal Cost Multi-path Routing
Support for [Equal Cost Multi-path Routing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-cost_multi-path_routing)
strategies are shown in the following table (see
the [tracking issue](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/274)):
| Classic | IPv4 / IPv6 | UDP / TCP | ✅ |
| Paris | IPv4 / IPv6 | UDP / TCP | ❌ |
| Dublin | IPv4 | UDP | ✅ |
| Dublin | IPv4 | TCP | ❌ |
| Dublin | IPv6 | UDP / TCP | ❌ |
## 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`:
```shell
sudo trip www.bitwizard.nl
```
2: `chown` `trip` as the `root` user and set the `setuid` bit:
```shell
sudo chown root $(which trip) && sudo chmod +s $(which trip)
```
3: [Linux only] Set the `CAP_NET_RAW` capability:
```shell
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:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl
```
Trace using the `udp` (or `tcp` or `icmp`) protocol (also aliases `--udp` & `--tcp`):
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -p udp
```
Trace to multiple targets simultaneously (`icmp` protocol only,
see [#72](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/72)):
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl google.com crates.io
```
Trace with a minimum round time of `250ms` and a grace period of `50ms`:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -i 250ms -g 50ms
```
Trace with a custom first and maximum `time-to-live`:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl --first-ttl 2 --max-ttl 10
```
Use custom destination port `443` for `tcp` tracing:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -p tcp -P 443
```
Use custom source port `5000` for `udp` tracing:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -p udp -S 5000
```
Use the `dublin` Equal Cost Multi-path Routing strategy for `udp` with fixed source and destination ports:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -p udp -R dublin -S 5000 -P 3500
```
Trace with a custom source address:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -p tcp -A 127.0.0.1
```
Trace with a source address determined by the IPv4 address for interface `en0`:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -p tcp -I en0
```
Trace using `IPv6`:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -6
```
Generate a `json` (or `csv`, `pretty`, `markdown`) tracing report with 5 rounds of data:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -m json -c 5
```
Perform DNS queries using the `google` DNS resolver (or `cloudflare`, `system`, `resolv`):
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -r google
```
Lookup AS information for all discovered IP addresses (not yet available for the `system` resolver,
see [#66](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/66)):
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl -r google -z
```
Customize the color theme:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl --tui-theme-colors bg-color=blue,text-color=ffff00
```
List all Tui items that can have a custom color theme:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl --print-tui-theme-items
```
Customize the key bindings:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl --tui-key-bindings previous-hop=k,next-hop=j,quit=shift-q
```
List all Tui commands that can have a custo key binding:
```shell
trip www.bitwizard.nl --print-tui-binding-commands
```
## Command Reference
```shell
Usage: trip [OPTIONS] <TARGETS>...
Arguments:
<TARGETS>... A space delimited list of hostnames and IPs to trace
Options:
-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]
--udp
Trace using the UDP protocol
--tcp
Trace using the TCP protocol
-4, --ipv4
use IPv4 only
-6, --ipv6
Use IPv6 only
-P, --target-port <TARGET_PORT>
The target port (TCP & UDP only) [default: 80]
-S, --source-port <SOURCE_PORT>
The source port (TCP & UDP only) [default: auto]
-A, --source-address <SOURCE_ADDRESS>
The source IP address [default: auto]
-I, --interface <INTERFACE>
The network interface [default: auto]
-i, --min-round-duration <MIN_ROUND_DURATION>
The minimum duration of every round [default: 1s]
-T, --max-round-duration <MAX_ROUND_DURATION>
The maximum duration of every round [default: 1s]
--initial-sequence <INITIAL_SEQUENCE>
The initial sequence number [default: 33000]
-R, --multipath-strategy <MULTIPATH_STRATEGY>
The Equal-cost Multi-Path routing strategy (IPv4/UDP only) [default:
classic] [possible values: classic, paris, dublin]
-g, --grace-duration <GRACE_DURATION>
The period of time to wait for additional ICMP responses after the
target has responded [default: 100ms]
-U, --max-inflight <MAX_INFLIGHT>
The maximum number of in-flight ICMP echo requests [default: 24]
-f, --first-ttl <FIRST_TTL>
The TTL to start from [default: 1]
-t, --max-ttl <MAX_TTL>
The maximum number of TTL hops [default: 64]
--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]
-Q, --tos <TOS>
The TOS (i.e. DSCP+ECN) IP header value (TCP and UDP only) [default:
0]
--read-timeout <READ_TIMEOUT>
The socket read timeout [default: 10ms]
-r, --dns-resolve-method <DNS_RESOLVE_METHOD>
How to perform DNS queries [default: system] [possible values:
system, resolv, google, cloudflare]
--dns-timeout <DNS_TIMEOUT>
The maximum time to wait to perform DNS queries [default: 5s]
-z, --dns-lookup-as-info
Lookup autonomous system (AS) information during DNS queries
-a, --tui-address-mode <TUI_ADDRESS_MODE>
How to render addresses [default: host] [possible values: ip, host,
both]
-M, --tui-max-addrs <TUI_MAX_ADDRS>
The maximum number of addresses to show per hop
-s, --tui-max-samples <TUI_MAX_SAMPLES>
The maximum number of samples to record per hop [default: 256]
--tui-preserve-screen
Preserve the screen on exit
--tui-refresh-rate <TUI_REFRESH_RATE>
The TUI refresh rate [default: 100ms]
--tui-theme-colors <TUI_THEME_COLORS>
The TUI theme colors [item=color,item=color,..]
--print-tui-theme-items
Print all TUI theme items and exit
--tui-key-bindings <TUI_KEY_BINDINGS>
The TUI key bindings [command=key,command=key,..]
--print-tui-binding-commands
Print all TUI commands that can be bound and exit
-c, --report-cycles <REPORT_CYCLES>
The number of report cycles to run [default: 10]
-h, --help
Print help (see more with '--help')
-V, --version
Print version
```
## Theme Reference
The following table lists the default Tui color theme. These can be overridden with the `--tui-theme-colors` command
line option.
| `bg-color` | The default background color | `Black` |
| `border-color` | The default color of borders | `Gray` |
| `text-color` | The default color of text | `Gray` |
| `tab-text-color` | The color of the text in traces tabs | `Green` |
| `hops-table-header-bg-color` | The background color of the hops table header | `White` |
| `hops-table-header-text-color` | The color of text in the hops table header | `Black` |
| `hops-table-row-active-text-color` | The color of text of active rows in the hops table | `Gray` |
| `hops-table-row-inactive-text-color` | The color of text of inactive rows in the hops table | `DarkGray` |
| `hops-chart-selected-color` | The color of the selected series in the hops chart | `Green` |
| `hops-chart-unselected-color` | The color of the unselected series in the hops chart | `Gray` |
| `hops-chart-axis-color` | The color of the axis in the hops chart | `DarkGray` |
| `frequency-chart-bar-color` | The color of bars in the frequency chart | `Green` |
| `frequency-chart-text-color` | The color of text in the bars of the frequency chart | `Gray` |
| `samples-chart-color` | The color of the samples chart | `Yellow` |
| `help-dialog-bg-color` | The background color of the help dialog | `Blue` |
| `help-dialog-text-color` | The color of the text in the help dialog | `Gray` |
The supported colors are:
- `Black`, `Red`, `Green`, `Yellow`, `Blue`, `Magenta`, `Cyan`, `Gray`, `DarkGray`, `LightRed`, `LightGreen`, `LightYellow`, `LightBlue`, `LightMagenta`, `LightCyan`, `White`
Color names are case insensitive and may contain dashes. Raw hex values, such as `ffffff` for white, may also be used.
## Key Bindings Reference
The following table lists the default Tui command key bindings. These can be overridden with the `--tui-key-bindings`
command line option.
| `toggle-help` | Toggle help | `h` |
| `next-hop` | Select next hop | `down` |
| `previous-hop` | Select previous hop | `up` |
| `next-trace` | Select next trace | `right` |
| `previous-trace` | Select previous trace | `left` |
| `address-mode-ip` | Show IP address only | `i` |
| `address-mode-host` | Show hostname only | `n` |
| `address-mode-both` | Show both IP address and hostname | `b` |
| `toggle-freeze` | Toggle freezing the display | `f` |
| `toggle-chart` | Toggle the chart | `c` |
| `expand-hosts` | Expand the hosts shown per hop | `]` |
| `expand-hosts-max` | Expand the hosts shown per hop to the maximum | `}` |
| `contract-hosts` | Contract the hosts shown per hop | `[` |
| `contract-hosts-min` | Contract the hosts shown per hop to the minimum | `{` |
| `chart-zoom-in` | Zoom in the chart | `=` |
| `chart-zoom-out` | Zoom out the chart | `-` |
| `clear-trace-data` | Clear all trace data | `ctrl-r` |
| `clear-dns-cache` | Flash the DNS cache | `ctrl-k` |
| `clear-selection` | Clear the current selection | `esc` |
| `toggle-as-info` | Toggle AS info display | `z` |
| `quit` | Quit the application | `q` |
The supported modifiers are: `shift`, `ctrl`, `alt`, `super`, `hyper` & `meta`. Multiple modifiers may be specified, for
example `ctrl-shift-b`.
## Acknowledgements
Trippy is made possible by [tui-rs](https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs),
[crossterm](https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm) as well
as [several](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/blob/master/Cargo.toml) foundational Rust libraries.
Trippy draws heavily from [mtr](https://github.com/traviscross/mtr) and also incorporates ideas
from both [libparistraceroute](https://github.com/libparistraceroute/libparistraceroute)
& [Dublin Traceroute](https://github.com/insomniacslk/dublin-traceroute).
The Trippy networking code is inspired by [pnet](https://github.com/libpnet/libpnet) and some elements of that codebase
are incorporated in Trippy.
The [AS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)) data is retrieved from
the [IP to ASN Mapping Service](https://team-cymru.com/community-services/ip-asn-mapping/#dns) provided
by [Team Cymru](https://team-cymru.com).
The [trippy.cli.rs](https://trippy.cli.rs) CNAME hosting is provided by [cli.rs](https://cli.rs).
## 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](LICENSE) for details.
Copyright 2022 [Trippy Contributors](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/graphs/contributors)