netstat
Sign in to saveIn computing, netstat is a command-line network utility that displays open network sockets, routing tables, and a number of network interface (network interface controller or software-defined network interface) and network protocol statistics. It is available on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems including macOS, Linux, Solaris and BSD. It is also available on IBM OS/2 and on Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
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- netstat
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- The netstat command in Linux
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- Various open-source and commercial developers
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- Plan 9: C
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- Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno, OS/2, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS
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- Cross-platform
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- Command
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- OS/2, Windows: Proprietary commercial softwarenet-tools, ReactOS: GPLv2Plan 9: MIT License
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- Statistics provided
- Parameters
- Examples
- Cross platform
- Unix-like
- Windows
- *nix
- Wildcards
- Caveats
- Platform specific remarks
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In computing, netstat is a command-line network utility that displays open network sockets, routing tables, and a number of network interface (network interface controller or software-defined network interface) and network protocol statistics. It is available on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems including macOS, Linux, Solaris and BSD. It is also available on IBM OS/2 and on Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
It is used for finding problems in the network and to determine the amount of traffic on the network as a performance measurement. On Linux this program is mostly obsolete, although still included in many distributions.