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netstat \- show network status
command symbolically displays the contents of various network-related
There are a number of output formats,
depending on the options for the information presented.
The first form of the command displays a list of active sockets for
The second form presents the contents of one of the other network
data structures according to the option selected.
Using the third form, with an
will continuously display the information regarding packet
traffic on the configured network interfaces.
The options have the following meaning:
With the default display,
show the address of any protocol control blocks associated with sockets; used
With the default display,
show the state of all sockets; normally sockets used by
server processes are not shown.
Show the state of the IMP host table.
Show the state of interfaces which have been auto-configured
(interfaces statically configured into a system, but not
located at boot time are not shown).
Show information only about this interface;
Show statistics recorded by the memory management routines
(the network manages a private pool of memory buffers).
Show network addresses as numbers (normally
interprets addresses and attempts to display them
This option may be used with any of the display formats.
Show per-protocol statistics.
is also present, show routing statistics instead.
.BI \-f " address_family"
Limit statistics or address control block reports to those
The following address families
allow substitutes for the defaults ``/vmunix'' and ``/dev/kmem''.
The default display, for active sockets, shows the local
and remote addresses, send and receive queue sizes (in bytes), protocol,
and the internal state of the protocol.
Address formats are of the form ``host.port'' or ``network.port''
if a socket's address specifies a network but no specific host address.
When known the host and network addresses are displayed symbolically
according to the data bases
respectively. If a symbolic name for an address is unknown, or if
option is specified, the address is printed numerically, according
For more information regarding
the Internet ``dot format,''
or ``wildcard'', addresses and ports appear as ``*''.
The interface display provides a table of cumulative
statistics regarding packets transferred, errors, and collisions.
The network addresses of the interface
and the maximum transmission unit (``mtu'') are also displayed.
The routing table display indicates the available routes and
their status. Each route consists of a destination host or network
and a gateway to use in forwarding packets. The flags field shows
the state of the route (``U'' if ``up''), whether the route
is to a gateway (``G''), and whether the route was created dynamically
by a redirect (``D''). Direct routes are created for each
interface attached to the local host;
the gateway field for such entries shows the address of the outgoing interface.
The refcnt field gives the
current number of active uses of the route. Connection oriented
protocols normally hold on to a single route for the duration of
a connection while connectionless protocols obtain a route while sending
The use field provides a count of the number of packets
sent using that route. The interface entry indicates the network
interface utilized for the route.
argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to
network interfaces. This display consists of a
column for the primary interface
(the first interface found during autoconfiguration)
information for all interfaces.
The primary interface may be replaced with another interface with the
The first line of each screen of information contains a summary since the
system was last rebooted. Subsequent lines of output show values
accumulated over the preceding interval.
The notion of errors is ill-defined. Collisions mean
something else for the IMP.