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32.Dd August 30, 2007
33.Dt NETSTAT 1
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm netstat
37.Nd show network status
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm
40.Op Fl Aan
41.Op Fl f Ar address_family
42.Op Fl M Ar core
43.Op Fl N Ar system
44.Nm
45.Op Fl bdgiLmnqrSsv
46.Op Fl f Ar address_family
47.Op Fl M Ar core
48.Op Fl N Ar system
49.Nm
50.Op Fl dn
51.Op Fl I Ar interface
52.Op Fl M Ar core
53.Op Fl N Ar system
54.Op Fl w Ar wait
55.Nm
56.Op Fl M Ar core
57.Op Fl N Ar system
58.Op Fl p Ar protocol
59.Nm
60.Op Fl M Ar core
61.Op Fl N Ar system
62.Op Fl p Ar protocol
63.Fl P Ar pcbaddr
64.Nm
65.Op Fl i
66.Op Fl I Ar Interface
67.Op Fl p Ar protocol
68.Nm
69.Op Fl is
70.Op Fl f Ar address_family
71.Op Fl I Ar Interface
72.Nm
73.Op Fl s
74.Op Fl I Ar Interface
75.Fl B
76.Sh DESCRIPTION
77The
78.Nm
79command symbolically displays the contents of various network-related
80data structures.
81There are a number of output formats,
82depending on the options for the information presented.
83The first form of the command displays a list of active sockets for
84each protocol.
85The second form presents the contents of one of the other network
86data structures according to the option selected.
87Using the third form, with a
88.Ar wait
89interval specified,
90.Nm
91will continuously display the information regarding packet
92traffic on the configured network interfaces.
93The fourth form displays statistics about the named protocol.
94The fifth and sixth forms display per interface statistics for
95the specified protocol or address family.
96.Pp
97The options have the following meaning:
98.Bl -tag -width flag
99.It Fl A
100With the default display,
101show the address of any protocol control blocks associated with sockets; used
102for debugging.
103.It Fl a
104With the default display,
105show the state of all sockets; normally sockets used by
106server processes are not shown.
107.It Fl B
108With the default display,
109show the current
110.Xr bpf 4
111peers.
112To show only the peers listening to a specific interface,
113use the
114.Fl I
115option.
116If the
117.Fl s
118option is present, show the current
119.Xr bpf 4
120statistics.
121.It Fl b
122With the interface display (option
123.Fl i ) ,
124show bytes in and out, instead of packets in and out.
125.It Fl d
126With either interface display (option
127.Fl i
128or an interval, as described below),
129show the number of dropped packets.
130.It Fl f Ar address_family
131Limit statistics or address control block reports to those
132of the specified
133.Ar address_family  .
134The following address families
135are recognized:
136.Ar inet ,
137for
138.Dv AF_INET ;
139.Ar inet6 ,
140for
141.Dv AF_INET6 ;
142.Ar arp ,
143for
144.Dv AF_ARP ;
145.Ar ns ,
146for
147.Dv AF_NS ;
148.Ar iso ,
149for
150.Dv AF_ISO ;
151.Ar atalk ,
152for
153.Dv AF_APPLETALK ;
154and
155.Ar local
156or
157.Ar unix ,
158for
159.Dv AF_LOCAL .
160.It Fl g
161Show information related to multicast (group address) routing.
162By default, show the IP Multicast virtual-interface and routing tables.
163If the
164.Fl s
165option is also present, show multicast routing statistics.
166.It Fl I Ar interface
167Show information about the specified interface;
168used with a
169.Ar wait
170interval as described below.
171If the
172.Fl f Ar address_family
173option (with the
174.Fl s
175option) or the
176.Fl p Ar protocol
177option is present, show per-interface statistics on the
178.Ar interface
179for the specified
180.Ar address_family
181or
182.Ar protocol ,
183respectively.
184.It Fl i
185Show the state of interfaces which have been auto-configured
186(interfaces statically configured into a system, but not
187located at boot time are not shown).
188If the
189.Fl a
190options is also present, multicast addresses currently in use are shown
191for each Ethernet interface and for each IP interface address.
192Multicast addresses are shown on separate lines following the interface
193address with which they are associated.
194If the
195.Fl f Ar address_family
196option (with the
197.Fl s
198option) or the
199.Fl p Ar protocol
200option is present, show per-interface statistics on all interfaces
201for the specified
202.Ar address_family
203or
204.Ar protocol ,
205respectively.
206.It Fl L
207Don't show link-level routes (e.g., IPv4 ARP or IPv6 neighbour cache).
208.It Fl M
209Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core
210instead of the default
211.Pa /dev/kmem .
212.It Fl m
213Show statistics recorded by the memory management routines
214(the network manages a private pool of memory buffers).
215.It Fl N
216Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
217.Pa /netbsd .
218.It Fl n
219Show network addresses and ports as numbers (normally
220.Nm
221interprets addresses and ports and attempts to display them
222symbolically).
223This option may be used with any of the display formats.
224.It Fl P Ar pcbaddr
225Dump the contents of the protocol control block (PCB) located at kernel
226virtual address
227.Ar pcbaddr .
228This address may be obtained using the
229.Fl A
230flag.
231The default protocol is TCP, but may be overridden using the
232.Fl p
233flag.
234.It Fl p Ar protocol
235Show statistics about
236.Ar protocol  ,
237which is either a well-known name for a protocol or an alias for it.
238Some protocol names and aliases are listed in the file
239.Pa /etc/protocols .
240A null response typically means that there are no interesting numbers to
241report.
242The program will complain if
243.Ar protocol
244is unknown or if there is no statistics routine for it.
245.It Fl q
246Show software interrupt queue setting/statistics for all protocols.
247.It Fl r
248Show the routing tables.
249When
250.Fl s
251is also present, show routing statistics instead.
252.It Fl S
253Show network addresses as numbers (as with
254.Fl n ,
255but show ports symbolically).
256.It Fl s
257Show per-protocol statistics.
258If this option is repeated, counters with a value of zero are suppressed.
259.It Fl v
260Show extra (verbose) detail for the routing tables
261.Pq Fl r ,
262or avoid truncation of long addresses.
263.It Fl w Ar wait
264Show network interface statistics at intervals of
265.Ar wait
266seconds.
267.El
268.Pp
269The default display, for active sockets, shows the local
270and remote addresses, send and receive queue sizes (in bytes), protocol,
271and the internal state of the protocol.
272Address formats are of the form ``host.port'' or ``network.port''
273if a socket's address specifies a network but no specific host address.
274When known the host and network addresses are displayed symbolically
275according to the data bases
276.Pa /etc/hosts
277and
278.Pa /etc/networks ,
279respectively.
280If a symbolic name for an address is unknown, or if
281the
282.Fl n
283option is specified, the address is printed numerically, according
284to the address family.
285For more information regarding
286the Internet ``dot format,''
287refer to
288.Xr inet 3 ) .
289Unspecified,
290or ``wildcard'', addresses and ports appear as ``*''.
291You can use the
292.Xr fstat 1
293to find out which process or processes hold references to a socket.
294.Pp
295The interface display provides a table of cumulative
296statistics regarding packets transferred, errors, and collisions.
297The network addresses of the interface
298and the maximum transmission unit (``mtu'') are also displayed.
299.Pp
300The routing table display indicates the available routes and
301their status.
302Each route consists of a destination host or network
303and a gateway to use in forwarding packets.
304The flags field shows
305a collection of information about the route stored as
306binary choices.
307The individual flags are discussed in more
308detail in the
309.Xr route 8
310and
311.Xr route 4
312manual pages.
313The mapping between letters and flags is:
314.Bl -column XXXX RTF_BLACKHOLE
315.It 1	RTF_PROTO1	Protocol specific routing flag #1
316.It 2	RTF_PROTO2	Protocol specific routing flag #2
317.It B	RTF_BLACKHOLE	Just discard pkts (during updates)
318.It C	RTF_CLONING	Generate new routes on use
319.It c	RTF_CLONED	Cloned routes (generated from RTF_CLONING)
320.It D	RTF_DYNAMIC	Created dynamically (by redirect)
321.It G	RTF_GATEWAY	Destination requires forwarding by intermediary
322.It H	RTF_HOST	Host entry (net otherwise)
323.It L	RTF_LLINFO	Valid protocol to link address translation.
324.It M	RTF_MODIFIED	Modified dynamically (by redirect)
325.It R	RTF_REJECT	Host or net unreachable
326.It S	RTF_STATIC	Manually added
327.It U	RTF_UP	Route usable
328.It X	RTF_XRESOLVE	External daemon translates proto to link address
329.El
330.Pp
331Direct routes are created for each
332interface attached to the local host;
333the gateway field for such entries shows the address of the outgoing interface.
334The refcnt field gives the
335current number of active uses of the route.
336Connection oriented
337protocols normally hold on to a single route for the duration of
338a connection while connectionless protocols obtain a route while sending
339to the same destination.
340The use field provides a count of the number of packets
341sent using that route.
342The mtu entry shows the mtu associated with
343that route.
344This mtu value is used as the basis for the TCP maximum
345segment size.
346The 'L' flag appended to the mtu value indicates that
347the value is locked, and that path mtu discovery is turned off for
348that route.
349A
350.Sq -
351indicates that the mtu for this route has not been set, and a default
352TCP maximum segment size will be used.
353The interface entry indicates
354the network interface used for the route.
355.Pp
356When
357.Nm
358is invoked with the
359.Fl w
360option and a
361.Ar wait
362interval argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to
363network interfaces.
364An obsolescent version of this option used a numeric parameter
365with no option, and is currently supported for backward compatibility.
366This display consists of a column for the primary interface (the first
367interface found during autoconfiguration) and a column summarizing
368information for all interfaces.
369The primary interface may be replaced with another interface with the
370.Fl I
371option.
372The first line of each screen of information contains a summary since the
373system was last rebooted.
374Subsequent lines of output show values
375accumulated over the preceding interval.
376.Pp
377The first character of the flags column in the
378.Fl B
379option shows the status of the
380.Xr bpf 4
381descriptor which has three different values:
382Idle ('I'), Waiting ('W') and Timed Out ('T').
383The second character indicates wheter the promisc flag is set.
384The third character indicates the status of the immediate mode.
385The fourth character indicates whether the peer will have the ability
386to see the packets sent.
387And the fifth character shows the header complete flag status.
388.Sh SEE ALSO
389.Xr fstat 1 ,
390.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
391.Xr ps 1 ,
392.Xr sockstat 1 ,
393.Xr vmstat 1 ,
394.Xr inet 3 ,
395.Xr bpf 4 ,
396.Xr hosts 5 ,
397.Xr networks 5 ,
398.Xr protocols 5 ,
399.Xr services 5 ,
400.Xr iostat 8 ,
401.Xr trpt 8
402.Sh HISTORY
403The
404.Nm
405command appeared in
406.Bx 4.2 .
407IPv6 support was added by WIDE/KAME project.
408.\" .Sh FILES
409.\" .Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact
410.\" .It Pa /netbsd
411.\" default kernel namelist
412.\" .It Pa /dev/kmem
413.\" default memory file
414.\" .El
415.Sh BUGS
416The notion of errors is ill-defined.
417