DameWare Trace ActiveX component is a 32-bit customcontrol for use with Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Webpages or any environment that can host ActiveX controls. DameWare Trace is a diagnostic utility that determines the route taken to a destination by sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo packets with varying Time-To-Live (TTL) values to the destination. Each router along the path is required to decrement the TTL on a packet by at least 1 before forwarding it, so the TTL is effectively a hop count. When the TTL on a packet reaches 0, the router issupposed to send back an ICMP Time Exceeded message to the source system. DTrace determines the route bysending the first echo packet with a TTL of 1 and incrementing the TTL by 1 on each subsequent transmission until the target responds or the maximum TTL is reached.