[hobr]

What do you recommend as a replacement? I'd love to get something that wasn't quite so opaque.

[tangue]

Ss has replaced netstat. (By the way each time you're typing netstat you're suppposed to get a message telling it's obsolete). ss is an improvment on performance and features, but unfortunately the ui isn't much improved compared to netstat ...

[geofft]

Nifty, `ss -i` seems useful. I think most of the rest of the info you can get with netstat, though (and there doesn't seem to be a way to resolve usernames, as `netstat -e` does).

Is there a way to make the output not justified to the width of my terminal? The extra whitespace makes it hard to see which rows match up, and also makes it annoying to paste into IM or email.

[lsc]

I wish utilities would use more characters, Because it makes searching so much easier. You can always alias it to something else, but for example, it is way easier to search for ifconfig than it is to search for ip (for iproute)

[victorhugo31337]

AFAIK ss was not meant to be a complete replacement of netstat. The ss utility (part of iproute2) uses netlink to monitor sockets only. The netstat utility (part of net-tools) uses old school ioctls to do things like manage routing tables, multicast membership, interface stats...long story short, iproute2 replaces net-tools.

[khedoros]

> By the way each time you're typing netstat you're suppposed to get a message telling it's obsolete

Starting about when? Most of the distros I use are a couple years old, and I don't see "ss" under the package managers.

[zipperhead]

I like ss, except I can never seem to remember the name. The two letters don't seem to have any relation to the functionality.

The man page refers to it as "ss - another utility to investigate sockets". That doesn't seem to help.

[signa11]

> Ss has replaced netstat.

what about non-tcp/non-udp sockets e.g. sctp ? ss doesn't seem to support that (but i might be mistaken)

[helper]

How do you get `netstat -s` information out of ss?

[steelbird]

ss -anp | grep LISTEN

[ipozgaj]

You don't need grep for that, ss can already filter by state on its own. Use: "ss -o state LISTENING"