In addition to the four tools referred previous, users can
customize to add other Windows applications and tools into Colasoft Capsa
with the External Tools. You can not only invoke but also execute the
added applications and tools via Colasoft Capsa.
The following figure is the tools menu in default. Click the
External tools... command from the Tools menu to open the
External Tools dialog page.

For example,
add the Tracert command of Windows into Colasoft Capsa.
- Click the New... button to enable the Property dialog box.
- Name the tool as Tracert.
- Enter the path of the program C:\WINDOWS\system32\tracert.exe
or click the
button to choose the path.
- Add the parameter $(IP) into Arguments.
- Click the
button to open the Arguments dialog.

- Click the Macros >> button to view the details.
Colasoft Capsa lists the parameters
IP Address, Physical Address,
Port and Protocol in the window.
You can add a parameter by selecting it's name and clicking the Insert
button. If the parameters did not listed, you can enter the
parameters into the upper window manually, like as -d, -h,
-j and
-w in Tracert
command. Every
parameter should be separated with a blank space.
- Choose the IP Address and click Insert button.
Click the OK button to save the settings and back to the
External Tools dialog.
-
Click the Tracert command in the Tools menu
to execute the program.

In addition, you can execute to trace an IP with Colasoft Capsa
conveniently. Select a packet in the Packets view and right click,
choose the Tracert command. The source and destination IP
address of the selected packet will be listed out, you can trace
either one by its name or both by the All command.
 Now let's trace
207.46.26.109 by click its name. System will
trace the this IP address and display the details of the execution in
the popup window.

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