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32.Dd September 12, 2009
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.It Fl X
268Force use of
269.Xr sysctl 3
270when retrieving information.
271Some features of
272.Nm
273may not be (fully) supported when using
274.Xr sysctl 3 .
275This flag forces the use of the latter regardless, and emits a message if a
276not yet fully supported feature is used in conjunction with it.
277This flag might be removed at any time; do not rely on its presence.
278.El
279.Pp
280The default display, for active sockets, shows the local
281and remote addresses, send and receive queue sizes (in bytes), protocol,
282and the internal state of the protocol.
283Address formats are of the form ``host.port'' or ``network.port''
284if a socket's address specifies a network but no specific host address.
285When known the host and network addresses are displayed symbolically
286according to the data bases
287.Pa /etc/hosts
288and
289.Pa /etc/networks ,
290respectively.
291If a symbolic name for an address is unknown, or if
292the
293.Fl n
294option is specified, the address is printed numerically, according
295to the address family.
296For more information regarding
297the Internet ``dot format,''
298refer to
299.Xr inet 3 ) .
300Unspecified,
301or ``wildcard'', addresses and ports appear as ``*''.
302You can use the
303.Xr fstat 1
304command to find out which process or processes hold references to a socket.
305.Pp
306The interface display provides a table of cumulative
307statistics regarding packets transferred, errors, and collisions.
308The network addresses of the interface
309and the maximum transmission unit (``mtu'') are also displayed.
310.Pp
311The routing table display indicates the available routes and
312their status.
313Each route consists of a destination host or network
314and a gateway to use in forwarding packets.
315The flags field shows
316a collection of information about the route stored as
317binary choices.
318The individual flags are discussed in more
319detail in the
320.Xr route 8
321and
322.Xr route 4
323manual pages.
324The mapping between letters and flags is:
325.Bl -column XXXX RTF_BLACKHOLE
326.It 1	RTF_PROTO1	Protocol specific routing flag #1
327.It 2	RTF_PROTO2	Protocol specific routing flag #2
328.It B	RTF_BLACKHOLE	Just discard pkts (during updates)
329.It C	RTF_CLONING	Generate new routes on use
330.It c	RTF_CLONED	Cloned routes (generated from RTF_CLONING)
331.It D	RTF_DYNAMIC	Created dynamically (by redirect)
332.It G	RTF_GATEWAY	Destination requires forwarding by intermediary
333.It H	RTF_HOST	Host entry (net otherwise)
334.It L	RTF_LLINFO	Valid protocol to link address translation.
335.It M	RTF_MODIFIED	Modified dynamically (by redirect)
336.It R	RTF_REJECT	Host or net unreachable
337.It S	RTF_STATIC	Manually added
338.It U	RTF_UP	Route usable
339.It X	RTF_XRESOLVE	External daemon translates proto to link address
340.El
341.Pp
342Direct routes are created for each
343interface attached to the local host;
344the gateway field for such entries shows the address of the outgoing interface.
345The refcnt field gives the
346current number of active uses of the route.
347Connection oriented
348protocols normally hold on to a single route for the duration of
349a connection while connectionless protocols obtain a route while sending
350to the same destination.
351The use field provides a count of the number of packets
352sent using that route.
353The mtu entry shows the mtu associated with
354that route.
355This mtu value is used as the basis for the TCP maximum
356segment size.
357The 'L' flag appended to the mtu value indicates that
358the value is locked, and that path mtu discovery is turned off for
359that route.
360A
361.Sq -
362indicates that the mtu for this route has not been set, and a default
363TCP maximum segment size will be used.
364The interface entry indicates
365the network interface used for the route.
366.Pp
367When
368.Nm
369is invoked with the
370.Fl w
371option and a
372.Ar wait
373interval argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to
374network interfaces.
375An obsolescent version of this option used a numeric parameter
376with no option, and is currently supported for backward compatibility.
377This display consists of a column for the primary interface (the first
378interface found during autoconfiguration) and a column summarizing
379information for all interfaces.
380The primary interface may be replaced with another interface with the
381.Fl I
382option.
383The first line of each screen of information contains a summary since the
384system was last rebooted.
385Subsequent lines of output show values
386accumulated over the preceding interval.
387.Pp
388The first character of the flags column in the
389.Fl B
390option shows the status of the
391.Xr bpf 4
392descriptor which has three different values:
393Idle ('I'), Waiting ('W') and Timed Out ('T').
394The second character indicates whether the promisc flag is set.
395The third character indicates the status of the immediate mode.
396The fourth character indicates whether the peer will have the ability
397to see the packets sent.
398And the fifth character shows the header complete flag status.
399.Sh SEE ALSO
400.Xr fstat 1 ,
401.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
402.Xr ps 1 ,
403.Xr sockstat 1 ,
404.Xr vmstat 1 ,
405.Xr inet 3 ,
406.Xr bpf 4 ,
407.Xr hosts 5 ,
408.Xr networks 5 ,
409.Xr protocols 5 ,
410.Xr services 5 ,
411.Xr iostat 8 ,
412.Xr trpt 8
413.Sh HISTORY
414The
415.Nm
416command appeared in
417.Bx 4.2 .
418IPv6 support was added by WIDE/KAME project.
419.\" .Sh FILES
420.\" .Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact
421.\" .It Pa /netbsd
422.\" default kernel namelist
423.\" .It Pa /dev/kmem
424.\" default memory file
425.\" .El
426.Sh BUGS
427The notion of errors is ill-defined.
428