The
UNIX equivalent would probably be
Xtraceroute, a beautiful
OpenGL traceroute utility that shows a
globe with your traceroute path on it. I've only ever seen it running on an
UltraSPARC and it's about as sexy as
network software is ever likely to get: according to the homepage it has also been successfully compiled on
GNU/Linux,
FreeBSD and
SGI.
The homepage is at
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3august/xt/index.html