# tracebox を Homebrew, Nix でインストール

tracebox のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:tracebox
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tracebox
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tracebox
```

  証拠: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tr/tracebox/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:tracebox
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 0.4.4
- **ソース概要:** Middlebox detection tool
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox>
- **最終更新:** 2026-06-25T13:38:09+02:00
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- luatracebox (エイリアス)
- tracebox (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 0.4.4
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

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.

### プロジェクトの歴史

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.

### 採用の歴史

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.

### 使われ方

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.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

### タイムライン

- 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.

### ソース

- <https://api.github.com/repos/tracebox/tracebox>
- <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox#readme>
- <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox/releases>
- <https://www.tracebox.org/>
- <https://www.tracebox.org/lua_doc>
- source_facts.package-manager


## セキュリティノート

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger リスク:** グリーン / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Nix - tracebox: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tr/tracebox/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tracebox.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/tracebox.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph