This is a little traceroute application. It can detect at most 10 hops, and it might not detect those of them which take too much to answer (or those which suffer from some packet loss). Of course this could be enhanced, but it is just a simple example.

This example uses features from the C++11 standard, so in order to compile it you'll have to use a relatively new compiler. GCC >= 4.6 and clang >= 3.1 should be able to compile it.

You can download this code here.

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#ifdef _WIN32
    #define NOMINMAX
#endif // _WIN32

#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>
#include <cstdint>
#include <random>
#include <map>
#include <algorithm>
#include <atomic>
#include <limits>
#include <mutex>
#include <tins/tins.h>

using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::move;
using std::map;
using std::min;
using std::setw;
using std::atomic;
using std::runtime_error;
using std::string;
using std::to_string;
using std::thread;
using std::this_thread::sleep_for;
using std::lock_guard;
using std::mutex;
using std::random_device;
using std::numeric_limits;
using std::bind;
using std::chrono::milliseconds;

using namespace Tins;

class Traceroute {
public:
    typedef std::map<uint16_t, IPv4Address> result_type;

    Traceroute(NetworkInterface interface, IPv4Address address) 
    : iface(interface), addr(address), lowest_dest_ttl(numeric_limits<int>::max()) { 
        sequence = random_device()() & 0xffff;
    }
    
    result_type trace() {
        SnifferConfiguration config;
        config.set_promisc_mode(false);
        // ICMPs that aren't sent from us.
        config.set_filter(
            "ip proto \\icmp and not src host " + iface.addresses().ip_addr.to_string());
        Sniffer sniffer(iface.name(), config);
        
        PacketSender sender;
        // Create our handler
        auto handler = bind(
            &Traceroute::sniff_callback, 
            this, 
            std::placeholders::_1
        );
        // We're running
        running = true;
        // Start the sniff thread
        thread sniff_thread(
            [&]() {
                sniffer.sniff_loop(handler);
            }
        );
        send_packets(sender);
        sniff_thread.join();
        // If the final hop responded, add its address at the appropriate ttl
        if (lowest_dest_ttl != numeric_limits<int>::max()) {
            results[lowest_dest_ttl] = addr;
        }
        // Clear our results and return what we've found
        return move(results);
    }
private:
    typedef map<uint16_t, size_t> ttl_map;

    void send_packets(PacketSender& sender) {
        // ICMPs are icmp-requests by default
        IP ip = IP(addr, iface.addresses().ip_addr) / ICMP();
        ICMP& icmp = ip.rfind_pdu<ICMP>();
        icmp.sequence(sequence);
        // We'll find at most 20 hops.
        
        for (auto i = 1; i <= 20; ++i) {
            // Set this ICMP id
            icmp.id(i);
            // Set the time-to-live option
            ip.ttl(i);
            
            // Critical section
            {
                lock_guard<mutex> _(lock);
                ttls[i] = i;
            }
            
            sender.send(ip);
            // Give him a little time
            sleep_for(milliseconds(100));
        }
        running = false;
        sender.send(ip);
    }

    bool sniff_callback(PDU& pdu) {
        // Find IP and ICMP PDUs
        const IP& ip = pdu.rfind_pdu<IP>();
        const ICMP& icmp = pdu.rfind_pdu<ICMP>();
        // Check if this is an ICMP TTL exceeded error response
        if (icmp.type() == ICMP::TIME_EXCEEDED) {
            // Fetch the IP PDU attached to the ICMP response
            const IP inner_ip = pdu.rfind_pdu<RawPDU>().to<IP>();
            // Now get the ICMP layer
            const ICMP& inner_icmp = inner_ip.rfind_pdu<ICMP>();
            // Make sure this is one of our packets.
            if (inner_icmp.sequence() == sequence) {
                ttl_map::const_iterator iter;

                // Critical section
                {
                    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> _(lock);
                    iter = ttls.find(inner_icmp.id());
                } 

                // It's an actual response
                if(iter != ttls.end()) {
                    // Store it
                    results[inner_icmp.id()] = ip.src_addr();
                }
            }
        }
        // Otherwise, this could be the final hop making an echo response
        else if (icmp.type() == ICMP::ECHO_REPLY && icmp.sequence() == sequence && 
                ip.src_addr() == addr) {
            // Keep the lowest ttl seen for the destination.
            lowest_dest_ttl = min(lowest_dest_ttl, static_cast<int>(icmp.id()));
        }
        return running;
    }

    NetworkInterface iface;
    IPv4Address addr;
    atomic<bool> running;
    ttl_map ttls;
    result_type results;
    mutex lock;
    uint16_t sequence;
    int lowest_dest_ttl;
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    if (argc <= 1) { 
        cout << "Usage: " <<* argv << " <ip_address>" << endl;
        return 1;
    }
    try {
        IPv4Address addr = string(argv[1]);
        Traceroute tracer(addr, addr);
        auto results = tracer.trace();
        if (results.empty()) {
            cout << "No hops found" << endl;
        }
        else {
            cout << "Results: " << endl;
            for(const auto& entry : results) {
                cout << setw(2) << entry.first << " - " << entry.second << endl;
            }
        }
    }
    catch (runtime_error& ex) {
        cout << "Error - " << ex.what() << endl;
        return 2;
    }
}