The netstat command is used on Windows systems at the command line. To see how this command is used on Kali Linux systems, please refer to this page.
Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.
SYNTAX
NETSTAT [-a] [-b] [-e] [-f] [-n] [-o] [-p proto] [-r] [-s] [-t] [interval]
| Switch | Purpose |
|---|---|
| -a | Displays all connections and listening ports. |
| -b | Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or listening port. In some cases well-known executables host multiple independent components, and in these cases the sequence of components involved in creating the connection or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called, and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient permissions. |
| -e | Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with the -s option. |
| -f | Displays Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) for foreign addresses. |
| -n | Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form. |
| -o | Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection. |
| -p proto | Shows connections for the protocol specified by proto; proto may be any of: TCP, UDP, TCPv6, or UDPv6. If used with the -s option to display per-protocol statistics, proto may be any of: IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, or UDPv6. |
| -r | Displays the routing table. |
| -s | Displays per-protocol statistics. By default, statistics are shown for IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, and UDPv6; the -p option may be used to specify a subset of the default. |
| -t | Displays the current connection offload state. |
| interval | Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds between each display. Press CTRL+C to stop redisplaying statistics. If omitted, netstat will print the current configuration information once. |
EXAMPLE
netstat -e
Output:
| Interface Statistics | ||
| Received | Sent | |
| Bytes | 545980465 | 130401610 |
| Unicast packets | 574480 | 462160 |
| Non-unicast packets | 389235 | 25930 |
| Discards | 0 | 0 |
| Errors | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown protocols | 0 | 0 |