WhatRoute HelpWhatRoute HelpWhatRoute is a network testing/monitoring utility for macOS. It can perform simple network tests such as traceroute and ping in addition to providing flow and bandwidth monitoring.
WhatRoute uses the IP Geolocation engine at http://ip-api.com to associate geographical data with IP addresses.
WhatRoute uses a privileged helper tool to perform operations requiring elevated privileges.
Trace
Discover routers between your computer and a remote computer.
Ping
Check the round trip time and reachability to another computer.
Whois
Lookup the DNS whois databases to determine ownership, contact details
etc for a domain or network using the system whois command
Lookup
Perform DNS queries with the system host and dig
commands.
ASN
Autonomous system information.
Port Scan
Find the open tcp and udp ports on a remote computer.
Interfaces
Find information about the interface configuration on your computer
using the system ifconfig command.
Netstat
Use the system command, netstat, to provide information about
open ports and connections on your computer.
Net Scan
Send a ping request to each IP address in a subnet and record
the identity of each computer that replies.
Neighbours
Find the computers on your LAN with which your computer has had recent
communications.
Location
Find the physical location of a network (IP address) or computer.
Tcpdump
Run the system tcpdump utility. A text input pane can be used
to provide options and filter expressions to the command.
tcpdump is started by WhatRoute as a privileged process but
drops privilege once it has acquired access to a network interface.
Net Quality
Run the system networkQuality utility. This is only available
on macOS 12 Monterey or later.
MAC Address
Look up the registration details for the given MAC address.
WhatRoute can display network nodes on a map of the planet. Each node is surrounded by a circle showing the accuracy with which the location has been estimated.
The nodes can be connected by a series of curves that show the flow of data betweeen the nodes.
More detailed information can be displayed on a higher resolution map by clicking on the node.
The Flow Monitor table displays the network flows seen by the selected network interface.
A Network Flow is a summary of the packets seen on a network interface with common characteristics of source/destination IP addresses, network protocol and source/destination ports.
WhatRoute enables you to view other detail such as the amount of data associated with the flow, the process on your machine that is participating in the flow etc.
The Flow Treemap window displays the contents of Flow Monitor as a treemap.
This is useful for spotting flows using an excessive amount of network resource.
The Local Network window displays other hosts on your network and will also show the contents of Flow Monitor as flows between local network hosts or the default network gateway.
This is useful for spotting flows using an excessive amount of network resource.
The Bandwidth Monitor window shows a graph of the amount of data received/sent by a specific network interface.
View performance attributes of your WiFi network.
Test the time taken to resolve from many dns servers.