What process is using what UDP port

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Aug 2 04:30:05 UTC 2006


In the last episode (Jul 31), Olivier Nicole said:
> I have a FreeBSD machine sending UDP packets to one of my other
> machine. There is no apparent reason why it is sending those UDP
> packets. How can I trace the process doing so?

"sockstat | grep udp" will tell you which processes have udp sockets
open, and tcpdumping the packets can give you an idea of what process
is likely to be sending them.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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