Your supervisor has asked you to try and identify the network device causing increased latency between a client's PC and a server located in a different physical location but on the same enterprise network. Which tool is best suited for identifying the problematic device?
Answer Description
Tracert and traceroute6 (a Linux trace route using Ipv6) are both good answers, but are not the best. Pathping is essentially tracert/traceroute but with the ping command sent each time between hops. Pathping has an advantage when troubleshooting latency on a network because it is longer and provides more information regarding network latency. Traceroute is best for simply identifying hops between two devices.
Wikipedia
PathPing is a network utility supplied in Windows NT and beyond that combines the functionality of ping with that of tracert.
It provides details of the path between two hosts and Ping-like statistics for each node in the path based on samples taken over a time period, depending on how many nodes are between the start and end host.
The advantages of PathPing over ping and traceroute are that each node is pinged as the result of …
PathPing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia