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Re: [ts-7000] netstat and TCP destination port -- bind() perhaps?

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] netstat and TCP destination port -- bind() perhaps?
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:30:13 +0000 (GMT)


On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Fred wrote:

> When performing a netstat the destination TCP port number listed is the 
> ephemeral number assigned during accept() calls.  The listen()ing socket 
> is bind()ed to the original destination TCP port number, of course, yet 
> when I perform a netstat I really would perfer seeing what the original 
> destination TCP port number was, not what the connection's ephemeral 
> destination port number is.
>
> Can anyone think of a way to allow me to see all extant TCP connections 
> but have the original listening destination TCP port number displayed?
>
> I was thinking that I could perhaps call bind() on the socket that 
> accept() returns -- yikes! -- but that crashed big time as I expected it 
> to.  It looks to me like it can't be done.
>
> Alternatively I must log debugging information to a text file when 
> accept() is called if I want to see a table of connections with the 
> listened port number.
>
> Any hint short of suicide is appreciated!

If you listen on a port and a call comes in on that port, it stays on that 
port until the connections is sleared. I really do not understand what you 
write above.

  netstat -naut

shows ACTUAL tcp/udp port numbers in use (active or with a listening 
program) at the time the program is run.



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