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TIP: check your network status

Posted by Vera on Monday October 31, @11:16AM
from the dept.
The Unix netstat command provides a very nice display of active sockets on your unix!
If you run an ftp or web server you can use this command to see all active socket connections to your site.

It also has some command line switches so that you can limit it to a particular protocol such as TCP. The basic command is:

netstat {enter}

Here's an example that will only diplay tcp socket connections.

netstat -p tcp {enter}

There are a bunch more command line switches you can use. To learn about all the switches just try the man pages.

man netstat {enter}

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