Hi, Well, indeed ss is a good utility to investigate sockets; it can do many things that netstat does. However, there are some functionalities of netstat which are missing in ss (and probably will not be added in future, due to the nature of ss utility).
For example, netstat can show also interface statistics, multicast memberships, masquerade connections and more. For example, showing forwarded packets with netstat is done by: netstat -s | grep forwarded 0 forwarded Showing multicast addresses is done by: netstat -g IPv6/IPv4 Group Memberships Interface RefCnt Group .... ... Regards, Rami Rosen http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > >> netstat -a -n -p > > Deprecated in recent years. Try 'ss' instead (similar switches. Slightly > different and better defaults). > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best > tzaf...@debian.org | | friend > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux