The CT1006-XGARP/ICMP block adds RTL-hardened functions for ICMP and ARP to any FPGA application. The all-RTL block includes part of the ARP protocol which is used to discover nodes on a network and ...

In more technical terms, traceroute sends a sequence of packets using the ICMP protocol (the same protocol used for the ping command.) The first packet has a time-to-live (also known as TTL ...