macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install traceboxlocal Homebrew formula metadata
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tracebox mit Homebrew, Nix installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für tracebox in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Linux
Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#traceboxnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/tr/tracebox/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Middlebox detection tool
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- luatracebox
- tracebox
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
Tracebox is a network-diagnostics CLI for detecting middleboxes on an Internet path. Its README describes it as traceroute-like, but focused on identifying packet modifications by comparing probes with ICMP replies.
Projektgeschichte
Tracebox comes from the research and measurement side of networking. The project page explains that it detects middleboxes by using ICMP replies to identify changes in packets, relying on the common behavior of devices that return more of the original datagram than the minimum described by RFC 792.
The GitHub repository was created in 2013, with public release metadata from v0.3 in May 2015 through v0.4.4 in January 2018. The source tree includes C and C++ implementation code, Lua support, manual pages, and documentation.
Adoptionsgeschichte
Tracebox's own README documents Homebrew installation for macOS, Linux builds from autotools dependencies, an OpenWRT package feed, and an Android build script for rooted phones. The OpenWRT section is explicitly marked unmaintained, which fits a project that was useful to network researchers and operators but did not become a constantly refreshed mainstream CLI.
Wie es verwendet wird
Users run `tracebox` or `luatracebox` to probe a path and inspect hop-by-hop packet modifications. The README documents JSON output via `-j`, verbose modification details, hop data, ICMP extensions, additions, deletions, and modifications, making it scriptable for measurement workflows.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
In package-manager culture, Tracebox is a classic specialist network tool: packaged in Homebrew and Nix, rooted in Unix build conventions, and interesting because it extends the familiar traceroute mental model into middlebox detection and JSON-producing measurement.
Zeitleiste
- 2013-06: GitHub repository created.
- 2015-05: Tracebox v0.3 released.
- 2017-10: Tracebox v0.4.2 released.
- 2018-01: Tracebox v0.4.4 released.
Related projects
- traceroute, ICMP, Lua, OpenWRT, Android builds, libpcap, netfilter queue.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
- Installiert mit 2 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
- Build-Metadaten listen 3 Build-Abhängigkeiten.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
luatracebox | cli | globales Executable | |
tracebox | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version0.4.4
Manager aktualisiert2026-06-25
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox
- InfoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/tracebox/traceboxnone Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:tracebox |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.4.4 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tracebox |
| Homepage | https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox |
| Repository | https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox#readme |
| Lizenz | GPL-2.0-only AND BSD-3-Clause |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox.git |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-06-25T13:38:09+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Abhängigkeiten | json-c, lua |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | autoconf, automake, libtool |
| Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken | libpcap |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
| Einschränkungen | Tracebox requires superuser privileges e.g. run with sudo. You should be certain that you trust any software you are executing with elevated privileges. |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | tracebox |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 4 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
Nix95%
tracebox
nix profile install nixpkgs#tracebox- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Tracebox
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment