TRACERT, what does the 3 ms readings mean?

[IsOs]

Could someone please explain what the three ms readings for? Also, when you get an "*" what does that mean?

let say that tracert have this readings:


Tracing route to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx over a maximum of 30 hops
1 33 ms 33 ms 36 ms dsl-router
2 41 ms 41 ms 49 ms s
3 79 ms 103 ms 116 ms p
4 127 ms 264 ms 165 ms s
5 100 ms 94 ms 123 ms p
6 110 ms 109 ms 114 ms p
7 133 ms 120 ms 224 ms p
8 111 ms 139 ms 127 ms s
9 124 ms 208 ms 133 ms s
10 176 ms 210 ms 206 ms s
11 191 ms 169 ms 160 ms s
12 197 ms 233 ms 211 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Trace complete.

 

[spidey07]

ms = millisecond

The trace program sends out three pings, the three numbers represent the round trip times. Asterisk is a timeout.

spidey

 

[CTR]

Whatis.com has a nice little writeup on how it works.

 

[IsOs]

Thanks