Cisco Traceroute – How to Stop Traceroute in Cisco Devices

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Few networking tricks can be pretty handy and save a lot of time. This becomes pretty useful for network administrators when troubleshooting or performing related day 2-day activities.

One such case is while using “Traceroute” command in cisco networking devices. As a standard Cisco device behaviour, tracing to a destination will take 30 hops or else it reaches the destination before that.

We can break the sequence of Traceroute by holding following keys together –

In case the above sequence doesn’t work, we can follow below sequence –

The above procedure holds true for Cisco iOS devices.

In case of Nexus platform switches, the break sequence is different as given below –

Related – How Trace out Works?

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Rashmi Bhardwaj

Founder of AAR TECHNOSOLUTIONS, Rashmi is an evangelist for IT and technology. With more than 12 years in the IT ecosystem, she has been supporting multi domain functions across IT & consultancy services, in addition to Technical content making.

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