{"id":4,"date":"2011-11-22T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdkit.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-06-19T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T03:00:35","slug":"how-to-install-mtr-on-mac-os-x-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"How to install MTR on Mac OS X Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked using <a href=\"http:\/\/winmtr.net\/\">WinMTR<\/a> on Windows machines to troubleshoot network connections and latency and looking for a similar tool on a Mac OS X there is an app for that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitwizard.nl\/mtr\/\">MTR<\/a>, written by&nbsp;Matt Kimball. MTR stands for Matt TraceRoute or My TraceRoute whichever works for you.<\/p>\n<p>On your Mac, start by downloading latest version from this FTP resource (scroll to the end and download .tar.gz file):<\/p>\n<p>ftp:\/\/ftp.bitwizard.nl\/mtr\/<\/p>\n<p>To unpack it, double click on the file in Finder. Assuming it&#8217;s in ~Downloads folder, open Terminal and type the following:<\/p>\n<pre>cd Downloads<br \/>cd&nbsp;mtr-0.81<br \/>export LIBS='-lm -ltermcap -lresolv'<br \/>.\/configure<br \/>make<br \/>sudo make install<br \/>alias mtr=\/usr\/local\/sbin\/mtr<\/pre>\n<p>To permanently save the alias, run this:<\/p>\n<pre><br \/>open ~\/.bash_profile<\/pre>\n<p>add to the file:<\/p>\n<pre>alias mtr=\/usr\/local\/sbin\/mtr<\/pre>\n<p>Now to use it, open Terminal and type mtr with IP address:<\/p>\n<pre>mtr 8.8.8.8<\/pre>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sdkit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-22-at-1.33.55-PM.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/sdkit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-22-at-1.33.55-PM.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked using WinMTR on Windows machines to troubleshoot network connections and latency and looking for a similar tool on a Mac OS X there is an app for that. It&#8217;s called MTR, written by&nbsp;Matt Kimball. MTR stands for Matt TraceRoute or My TraceRoute whichever works for you. On your Mac, start by downloading &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to install MTR on Mac OS X Lion\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/?p=4#more-4\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to install MTR on Mac OS X Lion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,4,3,7,2,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lion","category-mtr","category-ping","category-programming","category-traceroute","category-tutorial","category-unix","category-winmtr","no-featured-image-padding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-22-at-1.33.55-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdkit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}