An introduction to Traceroute on macOS

• Open the Terminal application found in the Utilities folder within Applications

• Type the following:

Note: You may need to use the sudo command to elevate permissions. This is in order to run the trace route command.

sudo traceroute -m 10

Note: -m is a variable that allows you to control how many hops traceroute will make. If you do not use the -m variable the traceroute command, twill continue until it times out.

• When you press enter on the keyboard, traceroute will begin displaying results from its report
• After completing your test you can end your Terminal session by typing.

exit

• Wikipedia article – Terminal (macOS)
• Apple article – Terminal User Guide for Mac