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Commands tagged netstat

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netstat -Aan | grep .80 | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep EST | awk '{print $6}' | cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 | sort | uniq
2012-02-03 13:54:11
User: janvanderwijk
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sort
Tags: sort uniq grep netstat cut aix
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See who are using a specific port

See who is using a specific port. Especially when you're using AIX. In Ubuntu, for example, this can easily be seen with the netstat command.

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netstat -plntu
2011-10-01 12:16:38
User: bolthorn0
Functions: netstat
Tags: netstat lsof networking
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check open ports (both ipv4 and ipv6)

Check open TCP and UDP ports

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netstat -plnt
2011-09-30 19:56:32
User: DopeGhoti
Functions: netstat
Tags: netstat lsof networking
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check open ports (both ipv4 and ipv6)

While `lsof` will work, why not use the tool designed explicitly for this job?

(If not run as root, you will only see the names of PID you own)

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sudo netstat|head -n2|tail -n1 && sudo netstat -a|grep udp && echo && sudo netstat|head -n2|tail -n1 && sudo netstat -a|grep tcp
2011-09-08 18:54:36
User: brando56894
Functions: echo grep head netstat sudo tail
Tags: netstat udp tcp connections
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Displays All TCP and UDP Connections
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netstat -nt | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c
2011-07-05 07:53:29
User: sreimann
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
Tags: sort awk uniq netstat
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netstat with group by (ip adress)

count connections, group by IP and port

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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-07-04 20:23:21
User: letterj
Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq
Tags: netstat
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netstat with group by (ip adress)

netstat has two lines of headers:

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

Added a filter in the awk command to remove them

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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-07-01 11:17:38
User: Koobiac
Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq
Tags: netstat
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netstat with group by (ip adress)
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watch 'netstat -anptu |egrep "^Proto|:80 "'
2011-05-18 15:05:52
User: Mozai
Functions: egrep watch
Tags: monitoring netstat watch
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Cheap iftop

Shows updated status in a terminal window for connections to port '80' in a human-friendly form. Use 'watch -n1' to update every second, and 'watch -d' to highlight changes between updates.

If you wish for status updates on a port other than '80', always remember to put a space afterwards so that ":80" will not match ":8080".

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while sleep 1; do date; (netstat -a -n | grep 80) ; done
2011-05-16 07:56:56
User: hute37
Functions: grep netstat sleep
Tags: netstat logging
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Polls fos network port usage
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netstat -rn | awk '/UG/{print $2}'
2010-08-09 15:56:02
User: putnamhill
Functions: awk netstat
Tags: awk netstat gateway
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Find default gateway

Tested on CentOS, Ubuntu, and MacOS.

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netstat -rn | grep UG | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f2
2010-08-09 15:25:18
User: greenmang0
Functions: cut grep netstat tr
Tags: grep netstat cut tr gateway
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Find default gateway
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netstat -l -p --tcp | egrep -e 'www.*[0-9]{3,4}\/(apache2|httpd)' | awk '{print$7}'
2010-07-26 12:52:07
User: cicatriz
Functions: awk egrep netstat
Tags: netstat
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Show the number of current httpd processes
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lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp
2010-06-07 15:22:44
User: atoponce
Tags: netstat lsof
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Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process

This command is more portable than it's cousin netstat. It works well on all the BSDs, GNU/Linux, AIX and Mac OS X. You won't find lsof by default on Solaris or HPUX by default, but packages exist around the web for installation, if needed, and the command works as shown. This is the most portable command I can find that lists listening ports and their associated pid.

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netstat -tunlp
2010-06-07 13:26:05
User: ender_x
Functions: netstat
Tags: netstat
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Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process

Shows you all listening tcp/udp ports, and what program has them open(depending on rights)

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netstat -an | awk '/tcp/ {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c
2010-05-06 17:04:37
User: Kered557
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
Tags: sort awk uniq netstat
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Count TCP States From Netstat

Counts TCP states from Netstat and displays in an ordered list.

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netstat -in
2010-02-04 15:24:58
User: mobidyc
Functions: netstat
Tags: ifconfig netstat hp-ux
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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX
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netstat -ltun
2009-10-05 08:39:03
User: Decoy
Functions: netstat
Tags: Linux netstat networking
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List open TCP/UDP ports

Works only on Linux.

Last option (n) turn name of service resolving (/etc/services) off.

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ss -p
2009-09-19 21:55:01
User: Escher
Tags: bash grep netstat internet ss
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

for one line per process:

ss -p | cat

for established sockets only:

ss -p | grep STA

for just process names:

ss -p | cut -f2 -sd\"

or

ss -p | grep STA | cut -f2 -d\"
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lsof -P -i -n
2009-09-19 18:28:48
User: OJM
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)
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netstat -lantp | grep -i stab | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:54:31
User: ProMole
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details, though it will not work showing only unique processes.

This version will work with other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, if the word for "ESTABLISHED" still contain the fragment "STAB"(e.g. "ESTABELECIDO")

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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:42:31
User: HarimaKenji
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

This corrects duplicate output from the previous command.

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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort
2009-09-19 13:54:36
User: ktoso
Functions: awk grep netstat uniq
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details.

Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)?

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netstat -lnp
2009-06-26 08:33:03
User: unixmonkey4415
Functions: netstat
Tags: netstat
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Most simple way to get a list of open ports
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kill_daemon() { echo "Daemon?"; read dm; kill -15 $(netstat -atulpe | grep $dm | cut -d '/' -f1 | awk '{print $9}') }; alias kd='kill_daemon
2009-05-26 20:39:56
User: P17
Functions: alias awk cut echo grep kill netstat read
Tags: alias kill netstat
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Kill a daemon by name, not by PID

Just find out the daemon with $ netstat -atulpe. Then type in his name and he gets the SIGTERM.

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netstat -taupe
2009-05-25 12:46:38
User: farwarx
Functions: netstat
Tags: netstat kookyoo reseau connexion
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Informations sur les connexions reseau

Affiche des infos detaillees sur vos connexions reseaux.

Port en ?coute, protocole, paquets, adresses, ustilisateur, PID etc...

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