Detailed explanation of Linux netstat command

Introduction

The Netstat command is used to display various network-related information, such as network connections, routing tables, interface status (Interface Statistics), masquerade connections, multicast memberships (Multicast Memberships), etc.

Output information meaning

After executing netstat, the output result is

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 2 210.34.6.89:telnet 210.34.6.96:2873 ESTABLISHED
tcp 296 0 210.34.6.89:1165 210.34.6.84:netbios-ssn ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdom:9001 localhost.localdom:1162 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdom:1162 localhost.localdom:9001 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 80 210.34.6.89:1161 210.34.6.10:netbios-ssn CLOSE

Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 1 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 16178 @000000dd
unix 1 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 16176 @000000dc
unix 9 [ ] DGRAM 5292 /dev/log
unix 1 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 16182 @000000df

On the whole, the output result of netstat can be divided into two parts:

One is Active Internet connections, called active TCP connections, where "Recv-Q" and "Send-Q" refer to %0A's receive queue and send queue. These numbers should generally be 0. If not it means packages are piling up in the queue. This situation can only be seen in very rare cases.

The other is Active UNIX domain sockets, called active Unix domain sockets (the same as network sockets, but can only be used for local communication, and the performance can be doubled).
Proto displays the protocol used for the connection, RefCnt represents the process number connected to this socket, Types displays the type of the socket, State displays the current status of the socket, and Path represents the path name used by other processes connected to the socket.

Common parameters

-a (all) displays all options, LISTEN-related are not displayed by default
-t (tcp) only displays tcp-related options
-u (udp) only displays udp-related options
-n refuses to display aliases, can All displayed numbers are converted into numbers.
-l only lists the service status in Listen (listening)

-p displays the name of the program that established the relevant link
-r displays routing information, routing table
-e displays extended information, such as uid, etc.
-s press each Protocol statistics
-c Execute the netstat command at regular intervals.

Tips: The status of LISTEN and LISTENING can only be seen with -a or -l

Practical command examples

1. List all ports (including listening and unlistening ones)

List all ports netstat -a

# netstat -a | more
 Active Internet connections (servers and established)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
 tcp        0      0 localhost:30037         *:*                     LISTEN
 udp        0      0 *:bootpc                *:*
 
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
 Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   Path
 unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     6135     /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
 unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5140     /var/run/acpid.socket

List all tcp ports netstat -at

# netstat -at
 Active Internet connections (servers and established)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
 tcp        0      0 localhost:30037         *:*                     LISTEN
 tcp        0      0 localhost:ipp           *:*                     LISTEN
 tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     LISTEN
 tcp6       0      0 localhost:ipp           [::]:*                  LISTEN

List all udp ports netstat -au

# netstat -au
 Active Internet connections (servers and established)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
 udp        0      0 *:bootpc                *:*
 udp        0      0 *:49119                 *:*
 udp        0      0 *:mdns                  *:*

2. List all listening Sockets

Show only the listening ports netstat -l

# netstat -l
 Active Internet connections (only servers)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
 tcp        0      0 localhost:ipp           *:*                     LISTEN
 tcp6       0      0 localhost:ipp           [::]:*                  LISTEN
 udp        0      0 *:49119                 *:*

Only list all listening tcp ports netstat -lt

# netstat -lt
 Active Internet connections (only servers)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
 tcp        0      0 localhost:30037         *:*                     LISTEN
 tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     LISTEN
 tcp6       0      0 localhost:ipp           [::]:*                  LISTEN

Only list all listening udp ports netstat -lu

# netstat -lu
 Active Internet connections (only servers)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
 udp        0      0 *:49119                 *:*
 udp        0      0 *:mdns                  *:*

Only list all listening UNIX ports netstat -lx

# netstat -lx
 Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
 Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   Path
 unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     6294     private/maildrop
 unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     6203     public/cleanup
 unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     6302     private/ifmail
 unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     6306     private/bsmtp

3. Display statistics for each protocol

Display statistics for all ports netstat -s

# netstat -s
 Ip:
total packets received
with invalid addresses
forwarded
incoming packets discarded
incoming packets delivered
requests sent out
 Icmp:
ICMP messages received
input ICMP message failed.
 Tcp:
active connections openings
failed connection attempts
connection resets received
 Udp:
packets received
packets to unknown port received.
 .....

Display statistics for TCP or UDP ports netstat -st or -su

# netstat -st 
# netstat -su

4. Display PID and process name in netstat output netstat -p

netstat -p can be used with Used together with other switches, you can add "PID/process name" to the netstat output, so that you can easily discover programs running on specific ports during debugging.

# netstat -pt
 Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
 tcp        1      0 ramesh-laptop.loc:47212 192.168.185.75:www        CLOSE_WAIT  2109/firefox
 tcp        0      0 ramesh-laptop.loc:52750 lax:www ESTABLISHED 2109/firefox

5. Don’t show host, port and username (host, port or user) in netstat output

When you don’t want host, port and username to be displayed, use netstat -n. Numbers will be used in place of those names.

It can also speed up the output because there is no need to perform comparison queries.

# netstat -an

If you just don’t want one of these three names to be displayed, use the following command

# netsat -a --numeric-ports
# netsat -a --numeric-hosts
# netsat -a --numeric-users

6. 持续输出 netstat 信息

netstat 将每隔一秒输出网络信息。

# netstat -c
 Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
 tcp        0      0 ramesh-laptop.loc:36130 101-101-181-225.ama:www ESTABLISHED
 tcp        1      1 ramesh-laptop.loc:52564 101.11.169.230:www      CLOSING
 tcp        0      0 ramesh-laptop.loc:43758 server-101-101-43-2:www ESTABLISHED
 tcp        1      1 ramesh-laptop.loc:42367 101.101.34.101:www      CLOSING
 ^C

7. 显示系统不支持的地址族 (Address Families)

netstat --verbose

在输出的末尾，会有如下的信息

netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.

8. 显示核心路由信息 netstat -r

# netstat -r
 Kernel IP routing table
 Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
 192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth2
 link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth2
 default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth2

注意： 使用 netstat -rn 显示数字格式，不查询主机名称。

9. 找出程序运行的端口

并不是所有的进程都能找到，没有权限的会不显示，使用 root 权限查看所有的信息。

# netstat -ap | grep ssh
 tcp        1      0 dev-db:ssh           101.174.100.22:39213        CLOSE_WAIT  -
 tcp        1      0 dev-db:ssh           101.174.100.22:57643        CLOSE_WAIT  -

找出运行在指定端口的进程

# netstat -an | grep ':80'

10. 显示网络接口列表

# netstat -i
 Kernel Interface table
 Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
 eth0       1500 0         0      0      0 0             0      0      0      0 BMU
 eth2       1500 0     26196      0      0 0         26883      6      0      0 BMRU
 lo        16436 0         4      0      0 0             4      0      0      0 LRU

显示详细信息，像是 ifconfig 使用 netstat -ie:

# netstat -ie
 Kernel Interface table
 eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:40:11:11:11
 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
 Memory:f6ae0000-f6b00000

11. IP和TCP分析

查看连接某服务端口最多的的IP地址

wss8848@ubuntu:~$ netstat -nat | grep "192.168.1.15:22" |awk '{print $5}'|awk -F: '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -20
221.136.168.36
154.74.45.242
78.173.31.236
62.183.207.98
192.168.1.14
182.48.111.215
124.193.219.34
119.145.41.2
114.255.41.30
75.102.11.99

TCP各种状态列表

wss8848@ubuntu:~$ netstat -nat |awk '{print $6}'
established)
Foreign
LISTEN
TIME_WAIT
ESTABLISHED
TIME_WAIT
SYN_SENT

先把状态全都取出来,然后使用uniq -c统计，之后再进行排序。

wss8848@ubuntu:~$ netstat -nat |awk '{print $6}'|sort|uniq -c
ESTABLISHED
FIN_WAIT1
Foreign
LAST_ACK
LISTEN
SYN_SENT
TIME_WAIT
established)

最后的命令如下:

netstat -nat |awk '{print $6}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn

分析access.log获得访问前10位的ip地址

awk '{print $1}' access.log |sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -10