In article <1993Jan11.115951.1005@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
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> David W. Summers (dws@ineg2.uark.edu) wrote:
> : Mike Stramba <stramba@zooid.guild.org> writes:
> : 
> : >Is there a 'netstat' or equivalent program for linux?
> : >
> : >Something very simple will do, i.e. showing what sockets have been opened, by
> : >whom, what their status is.
> : >
> : >Mike
> : >
> : 
> : Also it should print out routes, both static and learned.  Also is 'config'
> : the same as 'ifconfig' on SUNS?  If so, could we make it also print out
> : the ethernet, IP, and broadcast address, etc., like the SUNS do?  I would
> : love to know how to do this.....
> 
> Being able to inspect and alter the arp cache (as on other machines) would
> also be useful.
> 
> I guess the reason for not having these nice usefull tools is that Ross
> is still working on the code. Thus any changes would break things, ala
> ps
> 
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I started playing with something of the sort; unfortunately the kernel does
not (yet) collect the neccessary stats - and my code relies rather heavily on 
using nlist  and hence needs to read from an unstripped kernel [incidentally
to TPTB - could we have a target for "unstripped" in the makefile as standard
now that many people are - I hope - using LILO; it would make this sort of 
thing much easier]

I did put up a little thing on the NET channel of the mailing list some weeks
ago called etherstat that interrogated Ross' wd code for statistics (using 
gratuitous plagarism of the code from ps); maybe I should upload it to TSX-11
at some point - although I'd like to make it do a bit more first ;-)


Phil..

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