It allows you to trace the path IP packets take to a destination. It is currently implemented as a parser around the system traceroute command.
Methods are available for accessing information about a given traceroute attempt.
If given host , it will actually perform the traceroute. You can call the traceroute method later. If you don't set this, you get a Traceroute object with no traceroute data in it. Traceroute 's -p option. Traceroute 's -m option.