title: What do the numbers reported by the Windows TraceRt Mean
body: <p>I need to create a trace route as part of a .NET appliation to support trouble shooting.  I have figured out how to use the .NET Ping class to do the tracing.  What I do not understand is what the numbers reported by the command line utility are.  This is somewhat censored results of a "tracert yahoo.com" from the Windows command line:</p>
  
  <p>Tracing route to yahoo.com [206.190.60.37]
  over a maximum of 30 hops:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  1    &lt;1 ms    &lt;1 ms    &lt;1 ms  xx.xx.xx.xx
    2     7 ms    &lt;1 ms    &lt;1 ms  yy.yy.yy.yy  
    3    42 ms    37 ms    41 ms  zz.zz.zz.zz  
    4    38 ms    37 ms    37 ms  aa.aa.aa.aa  
    5    36 ms    36 ms    36 ms  bb.bb.bb.bb
    6    42 ms    41 ms    41 ms  cc.cc.cc.cc  
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  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The first column is the index and the next three columns are times in milliseconds.  I have searched the web for an explanation and have come up dry.  I thought that they might be min, average, and max numbers but line 2 would seem to counter that idea.  </p>
  
  <p>Jon Stonecash</p>