Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

Quick Start

See the getting started guide.

Install

Trippy runs on Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows. It can be installed from most package managers, precompiled binaries, or source.

For example, to install Trippy from cargo:

cargo install trippy --locked

All package managers

Cargo

cargo install trippy --locked

APT (Debian)

apt install trippy

ⓘ Note:

Only available for Debian 13 (trixie) and later.

PPA (Ubuntu)

add-apt-repository ppa:fujiapple/trippy
apt update && apt install trippy

ⓘ Note:

Only available for Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) and 22.04 (Jammy).

Snap (Linux)

snap install trippy

Homebrew (macOS)

brew install trippy

WinGet (Windows)

winget install trippy

Scoop (Windows)

scoop install trippy

Chocolatey (Windows)

choco install trippy

NetBSD

pkgin install trippy

FreeBSD

pkg install trippy

OpenBSD

pkg_add trippy

Arch Linux

pacman -S trippy

Gentoo Linux

emerge -av net-analyzer/trippy

Nix

nix-env -iA trippy

Docker

docker run -it fujiapple/trippy

All Repositories

See the installation guide for details of how to install Trippy on your system.

Run

To run a basic trace to example.com with default settings, use the following command:

sudo trip example.com

See the usage examples and CLI reference for details of how to use Trippy. To use Trippy without elevated privileges, see the privileges guide.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at trippy.rs.

documentation links

Getting Started

See the Getting Started guide.

Features

See the Features list.

Distributions

See the Distributions list.

Privileges

See the Privileges guide.

Usage Examples

See the Usage Examples.

Command Reference

See the Command Reference.

Theme Reference

See the Theme Reference.

Column Reference

See the Column Reference.

Configuration Reference

See the Configuration Reference.

Locale Reference

See the Locale Reference.

Versions

See the Version Reference.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does Trippy show "Awaiting data..."?

See the Awaiting Data guide.

How do I allow incoming ICMP traffic in the Windows Defender firewall?

See the Windows Defender Firewall guide.

What are the recommended settings for Trippy?

See the Recommended Tracing Settings guide.

Acknowledgements

Trippy is made possible by ratatui ( formerly tui-rs), crossterm as well as several foundational Rust libraries.

Trippy draws heavily from mtr and also incorporates ideas from both libparistraceroute & Dublin Traceroute.

The Trippy networking code is inspired by pnet and some elements of that codebase are incorporated in Trippy.

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

The trippy.cli.rs CNAME hosting is provided by cli.rs.

The Trippy chat room is sponsored by Zulip.

Trippy logo designed by Harun Ocaksiz Design.

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