For example, if you only want to see TCP connections, use netstat –tcp.
This shows a list of TCP connections to and from your machine. The following example shows connections to our machine on ports 993 (imaps), 143 (imap), 110 (pop3), 25 (smtp), and 22 (ssh).It also shows a connection from our machine to a remote machine on port 389 (ldap).
Note: To speed things up you can use the –numeric option to avoid having to do name resolution on addresses and display the IP only.
Code Listing 1: netstat –tcp
% netstat --tcp --numeric
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 192.168.128.152:993 192.168.128.120:3853 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.128.152:143 192.168.128.194:3076 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.128.152:45771 192.168.128.34:389 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.128.152:110 192.168.33.123:3521 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.128.152:25 192.168.231.27:44221 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 256 192.168.128.152:22 192.168.128.78:47258 ESTABLISHED
If you want to see what (TCP) ports your machine is listening on, use netstat –tcp –listening.
Another useful flag to add to this is –programs which indicates which process is listening on the specified port.
The following example shows a machine listening on ports 80 (www), 443 (https), 22 (ssh), and 25 (smtp);
Code Listing 2: netstat –tcp –listening –programs
# sudo netstat --tcp --listening --programs
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 28826/apache2
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 26604/sshd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 6836/
tcp 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 28826/apache2
Note: Using –all displays both connections and listening ports.
The next example uses netstat –route to display the routing table. For most people, this will show one IP and and the gateway address but if you have more than one interface or have multiple IPs assigned to an interface, this command can help troubleshoot network routing problems.
Code Listing 3: netstat –route
% netstat --route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
The last example of netstat uses the –statistics flag to display networking statistics. Using this flag by itself displays all IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP connection statistics.
To just show some basic information. For example purposes, only the output from –raw is displayed here.
Combined with the uptime command, this can be used to get an overview of how much traffic your machine is handling on a daily basis.
netstat command to find open ports
# netstat --listen
To display open ports and established TCP connections, enter:
$ netstat -vatn
To display only open UDP ports try the following command:
$ netstat -vaun
If you want to see FQDN (full dns hostname), try removing the -n flag:
$ netstat -vat
So far I like this one the best. You need sudo to see the programs that are listening
sudo netstat -tple
or
sudo netstat -lnptu