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add a packet timeout option to traceroute.

I use this when doing hundreds of traceroutes
to map our corperate network (with a little help
from graphviz). Setting a small timeout, where
I know the network is fast, speeds up the mapping as
some hosts are inevitably unavailable.

-Steve

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