Netstat gains new functionality in XP

While I don't use Windows XP, I found this to be quite a useful and long awaited feature for Netstat...

Nearly everyone here would know of netstat... it displays the current TCP/IP connections to your PC... (if you want more info, google it or check out TechNet)

Anyway, on with my tale.. ;)

Under Windows XP, Netstat has a new parameter... o
What does this new funky parameter do?

This new parameter tells Netstat to display the process that is controlling a current TCP/IP connection....

So for all of you people who have been using netstat and saying... WtF is connecting to that IP?!?!... You can now easily see what it is!!!

Here are some basic's for netstat right from the XP console:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.

NETSTAT [-a] [-e] [-n] [-o] [-s] [-p proto] [-r] [interval]

-a Displays all connections and listening ports.
-e Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with the -s
option.
-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.
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.

The last one goes last in the command string. It will refresh the console and update the contents. Example:

c:\netstat -an 5

You can have the same functionnality in NT/w2k with Foundstone's Fport...

Ammo

Can someoene post this netstat? Hopefully it'll work with win2k...

i'm not an XP user but i think that would be cool

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Originally posted here by fiend
Can someoene post this netstat? Hopefully it'll work with win2k...

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Hi,
If you've got Windows (or Linux), it's already on your machine. Open a DOS command prompt and type netstat. P2P Apocalypse gave you the options above that will display different information-- e.g. netstat -a, netstat -o, etc.

here are the only switches for win2K

NETSTAT [-a] [-e] [-n] [-s] [-p proto] [-r] [interval]

-a Displays all connections and listening ports.
-e Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with the -s
option.
-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.
-p proto Shows connections for the protocol specified by proto; proto
may be TCP or UDP. If used with the -s option to display
per-protocol statistics, proto may be TCP, UDP, or IP.
-r Displays the routing table.
-s Displays per-protocol statistics. By default, statistics are
shown for TCP, UDP and IP; the -p option may be used to specify
a subset of the default.
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.

No -o switch :rolleyes:

If you are using winnt 4+, win 2k or win xp you can use Active Ports to get the same info. Just go to google and type in active ports and one of the first 2 or 3 results should allow a download.

thank you e-1

for more infomation on Netstat, i found these threads da BOMB.
Networking

Netstat - Cheeseball http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=159847
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=130968
And lots inhere, you can visit the Totorial Forum for more !!http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=133897
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Originally posted here by preacherman481


Hi,
If you've got Windows (or Linux), it's already on your machine. Open a DOS command prompt and type netstat. P2P Apocalypse gave you the options above that will display different information-- e.g. netstat -a, netstat -o, etc.

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I do believe fiend was asking for the XP version of Netstat, which includes the -o parameter.....

The XP version may work on XP, but it may not.. only one way to test... someone with XP upload it would ya!?