Man page 8 : netstat

By default,

netstat displays a list of open sockets. If you don't specify any address families, then the active sockets of all configured address families will be printed.

Display the kernel routing tables. See the description in

R route (8) for details.

netstat -r and

route -e produce the same output.

Display multicast group membership information for IPv4 and IPv6.

Display a table of all network interfaces.

Display a list of masqueraded connections.

Display summary statistics for each protocol.

Tell the user what is going on by being verbose. Especially print some useful information about unconfigured address families.

Do not truncate IP addresses by using output as wide as needed. This is optional for now to not break existing scripts.

Show numerical addresses instead of trying to determine symbolic host, port or user names.

shows numerical host addresses but does not affect the resolution of port or user names.

shows numerical port numbers but does not affect the resolution of host or user names.

shows numerical user IDs but does not affect the resolution of host or port names.

Specifies the address families (perhaps better described as low level protocols) for which connections are to be shown. familyis a comma (',') separated list of address family keywords like

R inet ,

R unix ,

R ipx ,

R ax25 ,

R netrom , and

R ddp . This has the same effect as using the

R --inet ,

R --unix

R --ipx ,

R --ax25 ,

R --netrom , and

--ddp options.

The address family

inet includes raw, udp and tcp protocol sockets.

This will cause

netstat to print the selected information every second continuously.

Display additional information. Use this option twice for maximum detail.

Include information related to networking timers.

Show the PID and name of the program to which each socket belongs.

Show only listening sockets. (These are omitted by default.)

Show both listening and non-listening sockets. With the

--interfaces option, show interfaces that are not up

Print routing information from the FIB. (This is the default.)

Print routing information from the route cache.

The protocol (tcp, udp, raw) used by the socket.

The count of bytes not copied by the user program connected to this socket.

The count of bytes not acknowledged by the remote host.

Address and port number of the local end of the socket. Unless the

R --numeric option is specified, the socket address is resolved to its canonical host name (FQDN), and the port number is translated into the corresponding service name.

Address and port number of the remote end of the socket. Analogous to "Local Address."

The state of the socket. Since there are no states in raw mode and usually no states used in UDP, this column may be left blank. Normally this can be one of several values:

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      ESTABLISHED The socket has an established connection.
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      SYN_SENT The socket is actively attempting to establish a connection.
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      SYN_RECV A connection request has been received from the network.
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      FIN_WAIT1 The socket is closed, and the connection is shutting down.
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      FIN_WAIT2 Connection is closed, and the socket is waiting for a shutdown from the remote end.
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      TIME_WAIT The socket is waiting after close to handle packets still in the network.
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      CLOSE The socket is not being used.
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      CLOSE_WAIT The remote end has shut down, waiting for the socket to close.
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      LAST_ACK The remote end has shut down, and the socket is closed. Waiting for acknowledgement.
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      LISTEN The socket is listening for incoming connections. Such sockets are not included in the output unless you specify the

R --listening or

R --all option.

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      CLOSING Both sockets are shut down but we still don't have all our data sent.
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      UNKNOWN The state of the socket is unknown.

The username or the user id (UID) of the owner of the socket.

Slash-separated pair of the process id (PID) and process name of the process that owns the socket.

--program causes this column to be included. You will also need superuserprivileges to see this information on sockets you don't own. This identification information is not yet available for IPX sockets.

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The protocol (usually unix) used by the socket.

The reference count (i.e. attached processes via this socket).

The flags displayed is SO_ACCEPTON (displayed as

R ACC ), SO_WAITDATA ( W ) or SO_NOSPACE ( N ). SO_ACCECPTON is used on unconnected sockets if their corresponding processes are waiting for a connect request. The other flags are not of normal interest.

There are several types of socket access:

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      SOCK_DGRAM The socket is used in Datagram (connectionless) mode.
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      SOCK_STREAM This is a stream (connection) socket.
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      SOCK_RAW The socket is used as a raw socket.
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      SOCK_RDM This one serves reliably-delivered messages.
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      SOCK_SEQPACKET This is a sequential packet socket.
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      SOCK_PACKET Raw interface access socket.
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This field will contain one of the following Keywords:

• FREE
      The socket is not allocated
• LISTENING
      The socket is listening for a connection request. Such sockets are only included in the output if you specify the

R --listening or

R --all option.

• CONNECTING
      The socket is about to establish a connection.
• CONNECTED
      The socket is connected.
• DISCONNECTING
      The socket is disconnecting.
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      The socket is not connected to another one.
• UNKNOWN
      This state should never happen.

Process ID (PID) and process name of the process that has the socket open. More info available in

Active Internet connections section written above.

This is the path name as which the corresponding processes attached to the socket.

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