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32.Dd February 24, 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 bdghiLmnqrSsv
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 h
185When used with
186.Fl b
187in combination with either
188.Fl i
189or
190.Fl I ,
191output "human-readable" byte counts.
192.It Fl i
193Show the state of interfaces which have been auto-configured
194(interfaces statically configured into a system, but not
195located at boot time are not shown).
196If the
197.Fl a
198options is also present, multicast addresses currently in use are shown
199for each Ethernet interface and for each IP interface address.
200Multicast addresses are shown on separate lines following the interface
201address with which they are associated.
202If the
203.Fl f Ar address_family
204option (with the
205.Fl s
206option) or the
207.Fl p Ar protocol
208option is present, show per-interface statistics on all interfaces
209for the specified
210.Ar address_family
211or
212.Ar protocol ,
213respectively.
214.It Fl L
215Don't show link-level routes (e.g., IPv4 ARP or IPv6 neighbour cache).
216.It Fl M
217Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core
218instead of the default
219.Pa /dev/kmem .
220.It Fl m
221Show statistics recorded by the memory management routines
222(the network manages a private pool of memory buffers).
223.It Fl N
224Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
225.Pa /netbsd .
226.It Fl n
227Show network addresses and ports as numbers (normally
228.Nm
229interprets addresses and ports and attempts to display them
230symbolically).
231This option may be used with any of the display formats.
232.It Fl P Ar pcbaddr
233Dump the contents of the protocol control block (PCB) located at kernel
234virtual address
235.Ar pcbaddr .
236This address may be obtained using the
237.Fl A
238flag.
239The default protocol is TCP, but may be overridden using the
240.Fl p
241flag.
242.It Fl p Ar protocol
243Show statistics about
244.Ar protocol  ,
245which is either a well-known name for a protocol or an alias for it.
246Some protocol names and aliases are listed in the file
247.Pa /etc/protocols .
248A null response typically means that there are no interesting numbers to
249report.
250The program will complain if
251.Ar protocol
252is unknown or if there is no statistics routine for it.
253.It Fl q
254Show software interrupt queue setting/statistics for all protocols.
255.It Fl r
256Show the routing tables.
257When
258.Fl s
259is also present, show routing statistics instead.
260.It Fl S
261Show network addresses as numbers (as with
262.Fl n ,
263but show ports symbolically).
264.It Fl s
265Show per-protocol statistics.
266If this option is repeated, counters with a value of zero are suppressed.
267.It Fl v
268Show extra (verbose) detail for the routing tables
269.Pq Fl r ,
270or avoid truncation of long addresses.
271.It Fl w Ar wait
272Show network interface statistics at intervals of
273.Ar wait
274seconds.
275.It Fl X
276Force use of
277.Xr sysctl 3
278when retrieving information.
279Some features of
280.Nm
281may not be (fully) supported when using
282.Xr sysctl 3 .
283This flag forces the use of the latter regardless, and emits a message if a
284not yet fully supported feature is used in conjunction with it.
285This flag might be removed at any time; do not rely on its presence.
286.El
287.Pp
288The default display, for active sockets, shows the local
289and remote addresses, send and receive queue sizes (in bytes), protocol,
290and the internal state of the protocol.
291Address formats are of the form ``host.port'' or ``network.port''
292if a socket's address specifies a network but no specific host address.
293When known the host and network addresses are displayed symbolically
294according to the data bases
295.Pa /etc/hosts
296and
297.Pa /etc/networks ,
298respectively.
299If a symbolic name for an address is unknown, or if
300the
301.Fl n
302option is specified, the address is printed numerically, according
303to the address family.
304For more information regarding
305the Internet ``dot format,''
306refer to
307.Xr inet 3 ) .
308Unspecified,
309or ``wildcard'', addresses and ports appear as ``*''.
310You can use the
311.Xr fstat 1
312command to find out which process or processes hold references to a socket.
313.Pp
314The interface display provides a table of cumulative
315statistics regarding packets transferred, errors, and collisions.
316The network addresses of the interface
317and the maximum transmission unit (``mtu'') are also displayed.
318.Pp
319The routing table display indicates the available routes and
320their status.
321Each route consists of a destination host or network
322and a gateway to use in forwarding packets.
323The flags field shows
324a collection of information about the route stored as
325binary choices.
326The individual flags are discussed in more
327detail in the
328.Xr route 8
329and
330.Xr route 4
331manual pages.
332The mapping between letters and flags is:
333.Bl -column XXXX RTF_BLACKHOLE
334.It 1	RTF_PROTO1	Protocol specific routing flag #1
335.It 2	RTF_PROTO2	Protocol specific routing flag #2
336.It B	RTF_BLACKHOLE	Just discard pkts (during updates)
337.It C	RTF_CLONING	Generate new routes on use
338.It c	RTF_CLONED	Cloned routes (generated from RTF_CLONING)
339.It D	RTF_DYNAMIC	Created dynamically (by redirect)
340.It G	RTF_GATEWAY	Destination requires forwarding by intermediary
341.It H	RTF_HOST	Host entry (net otherwise)
342.It L	RTF_LLINFO	Valid protocol to link address translation.
343.It M	RTF_MODIFIED	Modified dynamically (by redirect)
344.It R	RTF_REJECT	Host or net unreachable
345.It S	RTF_STATIC	Manually added
346.It U	RTF_UP	Route usable
347.It X	RTF_XRESOLVE	External daemon translates proto to link address
348.El
349.Pp
350Direct routes are created for each
351interface attached to the local host;
352the gateway field for such entries shows the address of the outgoing interface.
353The refcnt field gives the
354current number of active uses of the route.
355Connection oriented
356protocols normally hold on to a single route for the duration of
357a connection while connectionless protocols obtain a route while sending
358to the same destination.
359The use field provides a count of the number of packets
360sent using that route.
361The mtu entry shows the mtu associated with
362that route.
363This mtu value is used as the basis for the TCP maximum
364segment size.
365The 'L' flag appended to the mtu value indicates that
366the value is locked, and that path mtu discovery is turned off for
367that route.
368A
369.Sq -
370indicates that the mtu for this route has not been set, and a default
371TCP maximum segment size will be used.
372The interface entry indicates
373the network interface used for the route.
374.Pp
375When
376.Nm
377is invoked with the
378.Fl w
379option and a
380.Ar wait
381interval argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to
382network interfaces.
383An obsolescent version of this option used a numeric parameter
384with no option, and is currently supported for backward compatibility.
385This display consists of a column for the primary interface (the first
386interface found during autoconfiguration) and a column summarizing
387information for all interfaces.
388The primary interface may be replaced with another interface with the
389.Fl I
390option.
391The first line of each screen of information contains a summary since the
392system was last rebooted.
393Subsequent lines of output show values
394accumulated over the preceding interval.
395.Pp
396The first character of the flags column in the
397.Fl B
398option shows the status of the
399.Xr bpf 4
400descriptor which has three different values:
401Idle ('I'), Waiting ('W') and Timed Out ('T').
402The second character indicates whether the promisc flag is set.
403The third character indicates the status of the immediate mode.
404The fourth character indicates whether the peer will have the ability
405to see the packets sent.
406And the fifth character shows the header complete flag status.
407.Sh SEE ALSO
408.Xr fstat 1 ,
409.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
410.Xr ps 1 ,
411.Xr sockstat 1 ,
412.Xr vmstat 1 ,
413.Xr inet 3 ,
414.Xr bpf 4 ,
415.Xr hosts 5 ,
416.Xr networks 5 ,
417.Xr protocols 5 ,
418.Xr services 5 ,
419.Xr iostat 8 ,
420.Xr trpt 8
421.Sh HISTORY
422The
423.Nm
424command appeared in
425.Bx 4.2 .
426IPv6 support was added by WIDE/KAME project.
427.\" .Sh FILES
428.\" .Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact
429.\" .It Pa /netbsd
430.\" default kernel namelist
431.\" .It Pa /dev/kmem
432.\" default memory file
433.\" .El
434.Sh BUGS
435The notion of errors is ill-defined.
436