LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of 'traceroute' that often works much faster (than the commonly-used Van Jacobson method) and goes through many configurations of firewalls. More importantly, LFT implements numerous other features including firewall detection and identification, load balancer detection, AS number lookups, loose source routing, netblock name lookups, et al. Also includes whob, a prefix whois client.
LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of 'traceroute' that often works much faster (than the commonly-used Van Jacobson method) and goes through many configurations of firewalls. More importantly, LFT implements numerous other features including firewall detection and identification, load balancer detection, AS number lookups, loose source routing, netblock name lookups, et al. Also includes whob, a prefix whois client.
To install lft, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install lft
To see what files were installed by lft, run:
port contents lft
To later upgrade lft, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade lft
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