diff --git a/tests/p_tcpdump/0_install_tcpdump.sh b/tests/p_tcpdump/0_install_tcpdump.sh
index ccf1308..5436056 100755
--- a/tests/p_tcpdump/0_install_tcpdump.sh
+++ b/tests/p_tcpdump/0_install_tcpdump.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Author: Christoph Galuschka <christoph.galuschka@chello.at>
 
-# Install tcpdump
+t_Log "Running $0 -  install package tcpdump"
 t_InstallPackage tcpdump
 
diff --git a/tests/p_traceroute/0-install_traceroute.sh b/tests/p_traceroute/0-install_traceroute.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e14bca8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/p_traceroute/0-install_traceroute.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Author: Christoph Galuschka <christoph.galuschka@chello.at>
+
+t_Log "Running $0 -  installing package traceroute"
+t_InstallPackage traceroute
+
diff --git a/tests/p_traceroute/traceroute_test.sh b/tests/p_traceroute/traceroute_test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1cabd06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/p_traceroute/traceroute_test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Author: Christoph Galuschka <christoph.galuschka@chello.at>
+
+t_Log "Running $0 - running traceroute to webhost"
+
+# Testing availability of network
+SKIP_QA_HARNESS=1
+if [ $SKIP_QA_HARNESS ]; then
+  HOST="www.centos.org"
+else
+  HOST="repo.centos.qa"
+fi
+
+ping -q -c 5 -i 0.25 ${HOST}
+if [ $? = 0 ]
+then
+  t_Log "$HOST is available - continuing"
+  COUNT=$( traceroute ${HOST} | grep -c ${HOST} )
+  if [ $COUNT = 2 ]
+  then
+    t_Log "traceroute reached ${HOST} and nslookup seems to work, too"
+    ret_val=0
+  else
+    t_Log "traceroute didn't reach ${HOST}"
+    ret_val=1
+  fi
+else
+  t_Log "$HOST seems to be unavailable - skipping"
+  ret_val=0
+fi
+
+t_CheckExitStatus $ret_val