Tools / BGP Tool

BGP Tool · MTR and traceroute with IP location

bgptool is a Linux command line tool that shows the ASN, location and ISP of every hop, powered by our IP database.

Install

Linux · amd64 / arm64

curl -fsSL https://bgp.cx/install.sh | sh

Detects the architecture, verifies the SHA-256, installs to /usr/local/bin/bgptool and grants cap_net_raw so it runs without sudo.

MTR diagnostics

Probes every hop continuously and shows loss, average / best / worst latency and jitter, with the ASN, location and ISP of each hop — find the faulty segment fast.

bgptool mtr 1.1.1.1

bgptool mtr -c 20 -6 example.com

Traceroute

Shows every hop to the target with latency, ASN, location and ISP, so you can see the route at a glance (premium lines, detours …).

bgptool trace 8.8.8.8

bgptool trace -q 1 --json example.com

Sample output

bash

$ bgptool trace 8.8.8.8
bgptool traceroute 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max
 #  Host             RTT (ms)       ASN       Location / ISP
 1  192.168.1.1      0.6 0.5 0.5             private / reserved
 2  100.64.0.1       3.1 2.9 3.0             private / reserved
 3  61.140.0.1       4.2 4.0 4.1    AS4134    China Guangdong Guangzhou  China Telecom
 4  202.97.94.10     8.7 8.5 8.6    AS4134    China Guangdong Guangzhou  China Telecom
 5  202.97.12.1      12.1 12.0 12.3 AS4134    China Shanghai  China Telecom
 6  108.170.241.65   32.4 32.1 32.2 AS15169   Hong Kong  Google
 7  8.8.8.8          31.9 31.8 32.0 AS15169   United States  Google

Usage limits

Without signing in: 10 runs a day per IPv4 address / IPv6 /64, up to 64 hops each
Signed in: counted against your API plan, one query per hop address
Private / reserved addresses and repeats within a run are free
Everyone sees ASN and ISP; API members get every location field
When the runs or quota are used up the tool keeps tracing, showing the route and latency without IP information until you sign in or the next day

See API plans

Sign in

Run bgptool login and approve the code in your browser — no password in the terminal. On servers you can sign in with an API key.

bgptool login

bgptool login --key ipk_xxx

bgptool whoami

Requirements & downloads

Linux (amd64 / arm64), a single static binary. Sending ICMP probes needs root or cap_net_raw, which the installer sets.

File	Size	Version	SHA-256
bgptool-linux-amd64	6.2 MB	dev-20261005	3080c1f60dd73fd8849c03a29e7cadd06d5371f8000a2681b9eb7c058d76be0e
bgptool-linux-arm64	5.7 MB	dev-20261005	2035d220847893960569b7b2ce3641ce5fb68793f9bd83160c2955d88910eca2