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32.Dd June 29, 2010
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 bdghiLmnqrSsTv
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 ;
154.Ar mpls ,
155for
156.Dv AF_MPLS ;
157and
158.Ar local
159or
160.Ar unix ,
161for
162.Dv AF_LOCAL .
163.It Fl g
164Show information related to multicast (group address) routing.
165By default, show the IP Multicast virtual-interface and routing tables.
166If the
167.Fl s
168option is also present, show multicast routing statistics.
169.It Fl I Ar interface
170Show information about the specified interface;
171used with a
172.Ar wait
173interval as described below.
174If the
175.Fl f Ar address_family
176option (with the
177.Fl s
178option) or the
179.Fl p Ar protocol
180option is present, show per-interface statistics on the
181.Ar interface
182for the specified
183.Ar address_family
184or
185.Ar protocol ,
186respectively.
187.It Fl h
188When used with
189.Fl b
190in combination with either
191.Fl i
192or
193.Fl I ,
194output "human-readable" byte counts.
195.It Fl i
196Show the state of interfaces which have been auto-configured
197(interfaces statically configured into a system, but not
198located at boot time are not shown).
199If the
200.Fl a
201options is also present, multicast addresses currently in use are shown
202for each Ethernet interface and for each IP interface address.
203Multicast addresses are shown on separate lines following the interface
204address with which they are associated.
205If the
206.Fl f Ar address_family
207option (with the
208.Fl s
209option) or the
210.Fl p Ar protocol
211option is present, show per-interface statistics on all interfaces
212for the specified
213.Ar address_family
214or
215.Ar protocol ,
216respectively.
217.It Fl L
218Don't show link-level routes (e.g., IPv4 ARP or IPv6 neighbour cache).
219.It Fl M
220Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core
221instead of the default
222.Pa /dev/kmem .
223.It Fl m
224Show statistics recorded by the memory management routines
225(the network manages a private pool of memory buffers).
226.It Fl N
227Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
228.Pa /netbsd .
229.It Fl n
230Show network addresses and ports as numbers (normally
231.Nm
232interprets addresses and ports and attempts to display them
233symbolically).
234This option may be used with any of the display formats.
235.It Fl P Ar pcbaddr
236Dump the contents of the protocol control block (PCB) located at kernel
237virtual address
238.Ar pcbaddr .
239This address may be obtained using the
240.Fl A
241flag.
242The default protocol is TCP, but may be overridden using the
243.Fl p
244flag.
245.It Fl p Ar protocol
246Show statistics about
247.Ar protocol  ,
248which is either a well-known name for a protocol or an alias for it.
249Some protocol names and aliases are listed in the file
250.Pa /etc/protocols .
251A null response typically means that there are no interesting numbers to
252report.
253The program will complain if
254.Ar protocol
255is unknown or if there is no statistics routine for it.
256.It Fl q
257Show software interrupt queue setting/statistics for all protocols.
258.It Fl r
259Show the routing tables.
260When
261.Fl s
262is also present, show routing statistics instead.
263.It Fl S
264Show network addresses as numbers (as with
265.Fl n ,
266but show ports symbolically).
267.It Fl s
268Show per-protocol statistics.
269If this option is repeated, counters with a value of zero are suppressed.
270.It Fl T
271Show MPLS Tags for the routing tables.
272.It Fl v
273Show extra (verbose) detail for the routing tables
274.Pq Fl r ,
275or avoid truncation of long addresses.
276.It Fl w Ar wait
277Show network interface statistics at intervals of
278.Ar wait
279seconds.
280.It Fl X
281Force use of
282.Xr sysctl 3
283when retrieving information.
284Some features of
285.Nm
286may not be (fully) supported when using
287.Xr sysctl 3 .
288This flag forces the use of the latter regardless, and emits a message if a
289not yet fully supported feature is used in conjunction with it.
290This flag might be removed at any time; do not rely on its presence.
291.El
292.Pp
293The default display, for active sockets, shows the local
294and remote addresses, send and receive queue sizes (in bytes), protocol,
295and the internal state of the protocol.
296Address formats are of the form ``host.port'' or ``network.port''
297if a socket's address specifies a network but no specific host address.
298When known the host and network addresses are displayed symbolically
299according to the data bases
300.Pa /etc/hosts
301and
302.Pa /etc/networks ,
303respectively.
304If a symbolic name for an address is unknown, or if
305the
306.Fl n
307option is specified, the address is printed numerically, according
308to the address family.
309For more information regarding
310the Internet ``dot format,''
311refer to
312.Xr inet 3 ) .
313Unspecified,
314or ``wildcard'', addresses and ports appear as ``*''.
315You can use the
316.Xr fstat 1
317command to find out which process or processes hold references to a socket.
318.Pp
319The interface display provides a table of cumulative
320statistics regarding packets transferred, errors, and collisions.
321The network addresses of the interface
322and the maximum transmission unit (``mtu'') are also displayed.
323.Pp
324The routing table display indicates the available routes and
325their status.
326Each route consists of a destination host or network
327and a gateway to use in forwarding packets.
328The flags field shows
329a collection of information about the route stored as
330binary choices.
331The individual flags are discussed in more
332detail in the
333.Xr route 8
334and
335.Xr route 4
336manual pages.
337The mapping between letters and flags is:
338.Bl -column XXXX RTF_BLACKHOLE
339.It 1	RTF_PROTO1	Protocol specific routing flag #1
340.It 2	RTF_PROTO2	Protocol specific routing flag #2
341.It B	RTF_BLACKHOLE	Just discard pkts (during updates)
342.It C	RTF_CLONING	Generate new routes on use
343.It c	RTF_CLONED	Cloned routes (generated from RTF_CLONING)
344.It D	RTF_DYNAMIC	Created dynamically (by redirect)
345.It G	RTF_GATEWAY	Destination requires forwarding by intermediary
346.It H	RTF_HOST	Host entry (net otherwise)
347.It L	RTF_LLINFO	Valid protocol to link address translation.
348.It M	RTF_MODIFIED	Modified dynamically (by redirect)
349.It R	RTF_REJECT	Host or net unreachable
350.It S	RTF_STATIC	Manually added
351.It U	RTF_UP	Route usable
352.It X	RTF_XRESOLVE	External daemon translates proto to link address
353.El
354.Pp
355Direct routes are created for each
356interface attached to the local host;
357the gateway field for such entries shows the address of the outgoing interface.
358The refcnt field gives the
359current number of active uses of the route.
360Connection oriented
361protocols normally hold on to a single route for the duration of
362a connection while connectionless protocols obtain a route while sending
363to the same destination.
364The use field provides a count of the number of packets
365sent using that route.
366The mtu entry shows the mtu associated with
367that route.
368This mtu value is used as the basis for the TCP maximum
369segment size.
370The 'L' flag appended to the mtu value indicates that
371the value is locked, and that path mtu discovery is turned off for
372that route.
373A
374.Sq -
375indicates that the mtu for this route has not been set, and a default
376TCP maximum segment size will be used.
377The interface entry indicates
378the network interface used for the route.
379.Pp
380When
381.Nm
382is invoked with the
383.Fl w
384option and a
385.Ar wait
386interval argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to
387network interfaces.
388An obsolescent version of this option used a numeric parameter
389with no option, and is currently supported for backward compatibility.
390This display consists of a column for the primary interface (the first
391interface found during autoconfiguration) and a column summarizing
392information for all interfaces.
393The primary interface may be replaced with another interface with the
394.Fl I
395option.
396The first line of each screen of information contains a summary since the
397system was last rebooted.
398Subsequent lines of output show values
399accumulated over the preceding interval.
400.Pp
401The first character of the flags column in the
402.Fl B
403option shows the status of the
404.Xr bpf 4
405descriptor which has three different values:
406Idle ('I'), Waiting ('W') and Timed Out ('T').
407The second character indicates whether the promisc flag is set.
408The third character indicates the status of the immediate mode.
409The fourth character indicates whether the peer will have the ability
410to see the packets sent.
411And the fifth character shows the header complete flag status.
412.Sh SEE ALSO
413.Xr fstat 1 ,
414.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
415.Xr ps 1 ,
416.Xr sockstat 1 ,
417.Xr vmstat 1 ,
418.Xr inet 3 ,
419.Xr bpf 4 ,
420.Xr hosts 5 ,
421.Xr networks 5 ,
422.Xr protocols 5 ,
423.Xr services 5 ,
424.Xr iostat 8 ,
425.Xr trpt 8
426.Sh HISTORY
427The
428.Nm
429command appeared in
430.Bx 4.2 .
431IPv6 support was added by WIDE/KAME project.
432.\" .Sh FILES
433.\" .Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact
434.\" .It Pa /netbsd
435.\" default kernel namelist
436.\" .It Pa /dev/kmem
437.\" default memory file
438.\" .El
439.Sh BUGS
440The notion of errors is ill-defined.
441