WhatRoute is designed to find the names of all the routers an IP packet passes through on its way from your Mac to a destination host. It also measures the round-trip time from your Mac to the router, thus enabling you to determine slow links--or hops--in the Internet. WhatRoute can also find dead links, such as routers that don't respond.

• A geo-location server is queried and the locations of the hosts discovered in a trace or seen active on the LAN, can be plotted on a low resolution map or viewed in high resolution on Google Earth
• WhatRoute also provides network and port scanning, ping, whois, DNS, and LAN monitoring functions.
• Find the ASN with which a network is registered and the networks with which it peers.
• View network flows

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

• Changed

  • Minimum system is now macOS 11 (El Capitan)

  Enhanced

  • Bandwidth - clear old data when waking from system sleep.
  • Monitor - improved perfrmance when flows exceed 50,000.
  • Monitor - User settable maximum displayed flows.
  • Sparkle Updater - Upgrade to version 2.0.0.
  • Logging - Added command to View Menu to display the log.