Re: a question re "netstat" output

[Eric G . Miller]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:06:42AM -0700, t s a d i wrote:
> hello everyone !
> 
> when i do _~$ netstat_ on my web server, i get the ff:
> 
> <snip>
> bangus:~$ netstat
> Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address        
> State      
> tcp        0  39595 bangus.myphilippine:www ME21-66.i-manila.c:1520
> ESTABLISHED 
> tcp        0    201 bangus.myphilippine:www 210.23.110.23:1129     
> ESTABLISHED 
> tcp        0  20091 bangus.myphilippine:www 203.177.21.243:1551    
> ESTABLISHED 
> tcp        0  25491 bangus.myphilippine:www cisco8-s1.pacific:56495
> ESTABLISHED 
> </snip>
> 
> my question ...  what does the numbers 1520, 1129, 1551 and 56495 mean
> ?

Those would be the port numbers methinks. If I'm not mistaken, it'd be
typical to establish a connection to a web server on port 80, but the
data transfers would go over a high port. Otherwise you'd only be able
to have one client connected to the server at any given point in time.
But I could have that all wrong.

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