Traceroute

[Andy James]

Can I implement Traceroute in an Android application?

[Piyush Patel]

trace route may require kernel level access. i think we dont have such deep level permission in android !
still but there is a hope , i found a command prompt in Android Emulator , where i can write commands like dir (list directory) etc..
you try out something ther

[Monu Tripathi]

Best and a little less time consuming way to find out feasibility of such an application would be to search for any existing application in the said domain and study it. If I remember correctly there was an application named "Server somthing" that had traceroute built in.

[Tim Holloway]

I don't think that traceroute requires special kernel privileges. Traceroute works by polling a certain port on successively more distant links in the chain between source and destination machines.

You can find source code in the Linux and BSD Unix OS sources. It;s part of the network utilities apps.