| NETSTAT(8) | Linux System Administrator's Manual | NETSTAT(8) |
netstat - Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships
netstat [address_family_options] [--tcp|-t] [--udp|-u] [--udplite|-U] [--sctp|-S] [--raw|-w] [--l2cap|-2] [--rfcomm|-f] [--listening|-l] [--all|-a] [--numeric|-n] [--numeric-hosts] [--numeric-ports] [--numeric-users] [--symbolic|-N] [--extend|-e[--extend|-e]] [--timers|-o] [--program|-p] [--verbose|-v] [--continuous|-c] [--wide|-W]
netstat {--route|-r} [address_family_options] [--extend|-e[--extend|-e]] [--verbose|-v] [--numeric|-n] [--numeric-hosts] [--numeric-ports] [--numeric-users] [--continuous|-c]
netstat {--interfaces|-i} [--all|-a] [--extend|-e[--extend|-e]] [--verbose|-v] [--program|-p] [--numeric|-n] [--numeric-hosts] [--numeric-ports] [--numeric-users] [--continuous|-c]
netstat {--groups|-g} [--numeric|-n] [--numeric-hosts] [--numeric-ports] [--numeric-users] [--continuous|-c]
netstat {--masquerade|-M} [--extend|-e] [--numeric|-n] [--numeric-hosts] [--numeric-ports] [--numeric-users] [--continuous|-c]
netstat {--statistics|-s} [--tcp|-t] [--udp|-u] [--udplite|-U] [--sctp|-S] [--raw|-w]
netstat {--version|-V}
netstat {--help|-h}
address_family_options:
[-4|--inet] [-6|--inet6] [--protocol={inet,inet6,unix,ipx,ax25,netrom,ddp,bluetooth, ... } ] [--unix|-x] [--inet|--ip|--tcpip] [--ax25] [--x25] [--rose] [--ash] [--bluetooth] [--ipx] [--netrom] [--ddp|--appletalk] [--econet|--ec]
This program is mostly obsolete. Replacement for netstat is ss. Replacement for netstat -r is ip route. Replacement for netstat -i is ip -s link. Replacement for netstat -g is ip maddr.
Netstat prints information about the Linux networking subsystem. The type of information printed is controlled by the first argument, as follows:
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 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. family is a comma (',') separated list of address family keywords like inet, inet6, unix, ipx, ax25, netrom, econet, ddp, and bluetooth. This has the same effect as using the --inet|-4, --inet6|-6, --unix|-x, --ipx, --ax25, --netrom, --ddp, and --bluetooth options.
The address family inet (Iv4) includes raw, udp, udplite and tcp protocol sockets.
The address family bluetooth (Iv4) includes l2cap and rfcomm 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, udpl, raw) used by the socket.
Established: The count of bytes not copied by the user program connected to this socket. Listening: Since Kernel 2.6.18 this column contains the current syn backlog.
Established: The count of bytes not acknowledged by the remote host. Listening: Since Kernel 2.6.18 this column contains the maximum size of the syn backlog.
Address and port number of the local end of the socket. Unless the --numeric (-n) 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 and UDPLite, this column may be left blank. Normally this can be one of several values:
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 superuser privileges 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 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:
This field will contain one of the following Keywords:
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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/etc/services -- The services translation file
/proc -- Mount point for the proc filesystem, which gives access to kernel status information via the following files.
/proc/net/dev -- device information
/proc/net/raw -- raw socket information
/proc/net/tcp -- TCP socket information
/proc/net/udp -- UDP socket information
/proc/net/udplite -- UDPLite socket information
/proc/net/igmp -- IGMP multicast information
/proc/net/unix -- Unix domain socket information
/proc/net/ipx -- IPX socket information
/proc/net/ax25 -- AX25 socket information
/proc/net/appletalk -- DDP (appletalk) socket information
/proc/net/nr -- NET/ROM socket information
/proc/net/route -- IP routing information
/proc/net/ax25_route -- AX25 routing information
/proc/net/ipx_route -- IPX routing information
/proc/net/nr_nodes -- NET/ROM nodelist
/proc/net/nr_neigh -- NET/ROM neighbours
/proc/net/ip_masquerade -- masqueraded connections
/sys/kernel/debug/bluetooth/l2cap -- Bluetooth L2CAP information
/sys/kernel/debug/bluetooth/rfcomm -- Bluetooth serial connections
/proc/net/snmp -- statistics
Occasionally strange information may appear if a socket changes as it is viewed. This is unlikely to occur.
The netstat user interface was written by Fred Baumgarten <dc6iq@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de>, the man page basically by Matt Welsh <mdw@tc.cornell.edu>. It was updated by Alan Cox <Alan.Cox@linux.org>, updated again by Tuan Hoang <tqhoang@bigfoot.com>. The man page and the command included in the net-tools package is totally rewritten by Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@linux.de>. UDPLite options were added by Brian Micek <bmicek@gmail.com>
| 2014-10-07 | net-tools |