Viewing established tcp connections

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:06:36 +0000
Joe Holden <joe at joeholden.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm after a tool to view tcp sessions passing through a router, however 
> dsniff is marked as BROKEN. Are there any alternatives?

If you don't need to inspect the sessions, netstat can show you that:

% netstat -p tcp -n
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
tcp4       0      0  192.168.1.100.56965    192.168.1.1.23         ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  192.168.1.100.61375    208.97.136.18.5222     ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  192.168.1.100.54996    208.245.212.98.5223    ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  192.168.1.100.51672    72.14.253.125.5223     ESTABLISHED

Otherwise, you can still use tcpdump:

# tcpdump -n tcp

You can even use a SNMP daemon and query TCP-MIB if you don't want ssh
sessions.

I couldn't infer details about what you really want to do, and feel like
these suggestions are not what you're looking for (YMMV), although they work
very well for my needs.

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez     <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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