Re: $netstat -a

[irvine.russell@edu.hel.fi]

Hello Again 

thanks again for all the suggestions.

I haven't quite found out what the processes generating those lines
in netstat were but I have I think got closer to an answer.

I looked in the netstat manpage and it mentionned the file 
/proc/net/raw. 

I looked at this file and found the following:

  sl  local_address rem_address   st tx_queue rx_queue tr tm->when retrnsmt   uid  timeout inode                               
   0: 00000000:0001 00000000:0000 07 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 0                                   
   1: 00000000:0006 00000000:0000 07 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 0                                   

Notice 0001 07 (on line 0) and 0006 07 (on line 1) - you may need to be in
X to see the output on oneline.

Didn't mean much to me so I searched and found an article on the /proc/net/ directory at :

   http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/11/16/LinuxAdmin.html 

Interesting but didn't explain all the fields in the above output.

I also found another email at:

   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1998/1998-44/0500.html

Which suggested that the 0 in the inode field means that its an internal kernel socket.

I am still not quite sure what exactly an internal socket is (not in any great detail anyway)
but no doubt I shall bump across the concept as I read and explore more. If anyone has 
any suggestions for further reading I would be grateful.

thanx again to everyone.

t.irvine

-- 

 Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
 Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor ne'er shall be.

   Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism.


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