Talk:netstat

To which platform does this refer?

Hi, This is a good page but I have one small suggestion for the preivous authors and this its to specifiy which platform is being used to describe the netstat parameters set out in the document. I suspect that the netstat on windows XP is being discussed. Can this be made more clear in the article? Cheers, Rod — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rkielty (talk • contribs) 10:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The parameters are now in a table, with rows for each parameter and columns for various platforms. Guy Harris (talk) 05:29, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please add descriptions of some parameters

Request to add a description of the following parameters:

-t

-u

-p

they(t&u) are used in the screenshot and are given in some examples on the net but their explanation is not in the man page or easily available. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.114.216 (talk) 23:05, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-s (does nothing) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.174.7.17 (talk) 15:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They're all described now, although -s does not "[do] nothing" - it requests network stack statistics, rather thatn the usual default of network sockets. Guy Harris (talk) 05:21, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

use of word "statistics"

I disagree with using the word "statstics" to refer to any data the command might report. This is not accurate terminology. Only some of the data reported (such as the -e ethernet statistics) are properly called "statistics". Mostly this command reports state, or status.

I do realize this may be carried over from Microsoft documentation for the command.

Spope3 (talk) 21:12, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neither the 4.2BSD man page nor the 4.2BSD source indicate in any fashion that it stands for "network statistics". I've removed the parenthetical note. Guy Harris (talk) 05:27, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TCP and/or UDP

In the introduction it states "In computing, netstat (network statistics) is a command-line network utility that displays network connections for Transmission Control Protocol (both incoming and outgoing)", but later on it says both TCP and UDP in the Netstat protocol. Should the introduction include UCP as well? (I don't know the answer). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.128.160 (talk • contribs) 08:54, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It displays open network sockets, whether they correspond to a connection or not, and those sockets might not be TCP or UDP socket (on my macOS Ventura system, it also lists some other protocols, such as ones used for kernel event and control messages); I changed it to say so. Guy Harris (talk) 04:42, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]