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Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.

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

1. Open a DOS window (Go to Start, Run, then type either CMD or COMMAND and hit OK)
2. C:\Documents and Settings>netstat ?
3. -a Displays all connections and listening ports.
4. -b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or listening port. In some cases well-known executables host multiple independent components, and in these cases the sequence of components involved in creating the connection or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called, and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient permissions.
5. -e Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with the -s option.
6. -n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.
7. -o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.
8. -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.
9. -r Displays the routing table.
10. -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.
11. -v When used in conjunction with -b, will display sequence of components involved in creating the connection or listening port for all executables.
12. 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.

C:\Documents and Settings>netstat
Active Connections
Proto TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP	Local Address BEAGLE:1044 BEAGLE:1100 BEAGLE:1101 BEAGLE:1110 BEAGLE:1110 BEAGLE:1110 BEAGLE:1110 BEAGLE:1563 BEAGLE:1573 BEAGLE:1577 BEAGLE:1155 BEAGLE:1564 BEAGLE:1574 BEAGLE:1580	Foreign Address localhost:1110 localhost:1101 localhost:1100 localhost:1563 localhost:1573 localhost:1577 localhost:1595 localhost:1110 localhost:1110 localhost:1110 be.f6.1243.static.theplanet.com:22 in-in-f91.google.com:http bp-in-f104.google.com:http bp-in-f104.google.com:http	State CLOSE_WAIT ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED TIME_WAIT ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHE ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED