Editing Traceroute (section)

== Origins ==
The traceroute [[Unix manual|manual page]] states that the original traceroute program was written by [[Van Jacobson]] in 1987 from a suggestion by [[Steve Deering]], and that Guy Almes and Matt Mathis also had the idea concurrent with Deering.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/traceroute6/traceroute6.c|title=traceroute6.c source code|date=2022-10-04|access-date=2023-09-17}}</ref> The author of the [[Ping (networking utility)|ping]] program, [[Mike Muuss]], states on his website that traceroute was written using kernel ICMP support that he had earlier coded to enable raw ICMP sockets when he first wrote the ping program.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html |title=The Story of the PING Program}}</ref>