MCS MyRoute helps diagnose connectivity problems with detailed network routing discovery and analysis, providing visibility to poor-performing networks and devices. It includes a Java applet that enables remote users to easily test connections from the MyRoute server. Essential diagnostic tools including traceroute, ping, reverse DNS, and whois are combined into a single graphical interface that analyzes Internet connections, reporting quick and essential data points for finding connectivity problems. An IP location database identifies the geographical location of IP addresses and Web servers, showing the path of an Internet connection on a global map.
| Tags | Security Internet Scientific/Engineering Visualization Monitoring Networking Systems Administration Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Proprietary with Free Trial |
| Operating Systems | Unix Linux Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Java |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Support for "?go=xxx" was added, which enables a host name or IP address to be passed to the browser window. A bug which caused a Remote Agent to fail to post the console log under some circumstances was fixed. Client header information was added to the detail report page.


Release Notes: Changes include the addition of 'Trace To' and 'DNS Time' metrics, improved SQL API performance, and a fix for a problem where error 196608 was incorrectly generated.


Release Notes: The option to permit traces to a local network was updated to no longer apply to pre-specified hosts.


Release Notes: The MCS applet has been updated with modern Java controls. Unicode is now supported. A problem where published pages could not be deleted was fixed.


Release Notes: The IP location database has been updated.
Recent comments
12 Dec 2003 13:49
Re: Nice program, but...
It's spyware. Yes, unforunatly the program "Phone's Home" to do a license audit on visualware's servers every time you run a trace.
I was very disapointed when I found this out, it's such a great peice of software, but privacy always comes first.
I imedaitly unistalled it, and I am demanding a refund from Visualware.
It's a shame, really it is.
> Why commercial? There really can't be
> tonnes of money in a "traceroute" clone,
> no matter HOW graphical it is. That
> seems like a sure-fire way to lose
> business, IMHO, but that's just my
> opinion. They've not changed their
> model, since they released the package,
> so I guess someone must be buying it.
> Their choice of a poor-quality, patented
> compression algorithm, for distributing
> the program doesn't exactly fill me with
> joy, either.
> Graphical traceroutes are useful tools,
> as they give much more depth and meaning
> to the logical descriptions. However,
> their usefulness is severely limited if
> they're impractical to obtain or use.
02 Mar 2000 10:04
Nice program, but...
Why commercial? There really can't be tonnes of money in a "traceroute" clone, no matter HOW graphical it is. That seems like a sure-fire way to lose business, IMHO, but that's just my opinion. They've not changed their model, since they released the package, so I guess someone must be buying it. Their choice of a poor-quality, patented compression algorithm, for distributing the program doesn't exactly fill me with joy, either.
Graphical traceroutes are useful tools, as they give much more depth and meaning to the logical descriptions. However, their usefulness is severely limited if they're impractical to obtain or use.