System Administration Guide: IP Services

ProcedureHow to Display the Status of Sockets

The -a option of the netstat command enables you to view the status of sockets on the local host.

  1. Type the following to display the status of sockets and routing table entries:

    You can use your user account to run this option of netstat.


    % netstat -a  
    

Example 8–9 Displaying All Sockets and Routing Table Entries

The output of the netstat -a command shows extensive statistics. The following example shows portions of typical netstat -a output.


UDP: IPv4
   Local Address         Remote Address     State
-------------------- -------------------- -------
      *.bootpc                              Idle
host85.bootpc                               Idle
      *.*                                   Unbound
      *.*                                   Unbound
      *.sunrpc                              Idle
      *.*                                   Unbound
      *.32771                               Idle
      *.sunrpc                              Idle
      *.*                                   Unbound
      *.32775                               Idle
      *.time                                Idle
       .
       .
      *.daytime                             Idle
      *.echo                                Idle
      *.discard                             Idle
      
UDP: IPv6
   Local Address                     Remote Address                   State      If  
--------------------------------- --------------------------------- ---------- -----
      *.*                                                           Unbound   
      *.*                                                           Unbound   
      *.sunrpc                                                      Idle      
      *.*                                                           Unbound   
      *.32771                                                       Idle      
      *.32778                                                       Idle      
      *.syslog                                                      Idle      
      .
      .
TCP: IPv4
   Local Address        Remote Address    Swind Send-Q Rwind Recv-Q  State
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ------ ----- ------ -------
      *.*                  *.*                0      0 49152      0 IDLE
localhost.4999             *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.sunrpc             *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.*                  *.*                0      0 49152      0 IDLE
      *.sunrpc             *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      .
      .
      *.printer            *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.time               *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.daytime            *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.echo               *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.discard            *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.chargen            *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.shell              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.shell              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.kshell             *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.login  
       .
       .
            *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
   *TCP: IPv6
 Local Address            Remote Address        Swind Send-Q Rwind Recv-Q   State If
----------------------- ----------------------- ----- ------ ----- ------    ----
   *.*                         *.*                0      0 49152      0      IDLE
   *.sunrpc                    *.*                0      0 49152      0      LISTEN
   *.*                         *.*                0      0 49152      0      IDLE
   *.32774                     *.*                0      0 49152