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Best Debian 10 Nestat Alternative

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 25, 2022

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Today, we will explore the best alternative to Netstat which is the Socket Statistics tool or the “ss” command. The “ss” helps in providing relevant information about the network connections.

The netstat command is comparatively slower than the Socket Statistics because it gathers the information by reading the /proc files. Reading from the /proc files takes plenty of time to display several network connections. On the other hand, Socket Statistics directly gathers the information from kernel space.

We listed down the different ways that the “ss” can be used to get an information about the network connections. The “ss” command was implemented on the command line of Ubuntu 22.04.

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