mtr Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to mtr for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Angry IP Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to mtr and 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to mtr are NetPeek, SmokePing, iPerf3 and Trippy.

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  1. Angry IP Scanner icon
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    Open-source, cross-platform network scanner for fast and simple IP and port scanning. It's lightweight, requires no installation, utilizes multithreading for speed, and is extendable via plugins. It pings IPs, resolves hostnames, determines MAC addresses, provides NetBIOS info, and saves results in various formats.

    60 Angry IP Scanner alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Java
     
  2. NetPeek icon
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    A modern libadwaita-based network scanner for GNOME that helps you discover devices on your local network.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. SmokePing icon
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    SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network...

    30 SmokePing alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. iPerf3 icon
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    The iperf series of tools perform active measurements to determine the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, protocols, and buffers. For each test it reports the measured throughput, loss, and other parameters.

    28 iPerf3 alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Wine
    • FreeBSD
    • Docker
     
  5. Trippy icon
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    Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
     
  6. Fnmap icon
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    A front-end for the nmap command, similar and partially compatible with zenmap written in Dart+Flutter. Fnmap pretty prints XML output and provides tabular views of the data nmap collects. Fnmap can load XML scan files that are produced directly from the nmap CLI and can also...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flatpak
     
  7. fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  8. netdiscover icon
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    Netdiscover is an active/passive address reconnaissance tool, mainly developed for those wireless networks without dhcp server, when you are wardriving. It can be also used on hub/switched networks.

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    • Linux
     
  9. NmapSI4 icon
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    NmapSi4 is a complete Qt-based Gui with the design goals to provide a complete nmap interface for Users, in order to menage all option of this power security net scanner and search services vulnerability.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirectional throughput, and end-to-end latency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Solaris
    • IBM AIX
    • HP-UX
     
  11. pingg icon
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    Great for figuring out whether you wifi or internet is slowing down. Has traceroute and tcp functions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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