ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing
information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state
informations than other tools.
When no option is used ss displays a list of open non-listening
TCP sockets that have established connection.
- -h, --help
- Show summary of options.
- -V, --version
- Output version information.
- -n, --numeric
- Do not try to resolve service names.
- -r, --resolve
- Try to resolve numeric address/ports.
- -a, --all
- Display both listening and non-listening (for TCP this means established
connections) sockets.
- -l, --listening
- Display only listening sockets (these are omitted by default).
- -o, --options
- Show timer information.
- -e, --extended
- Show detailed socket information
- -m, --memory
- Show socket memory usage.
- -p, --processes
- Show process using socket.
- -i, --info
- Show internal TCP information.
- -s, --summary
- Print summary statistics. This option does not parse socket lists
obtaining summary from various sources. It is useful when amount of
sockets is so huge that parsing /proc/net/tcp is painful.
- -b, --bpf
- Show socket BPF filters (only administrators are allowed to get these
information).
- -4, --ipv4
- Display only IP version 4 sockets (alias for -f inet).
- -6, --ipv6
- Display only IP version 6 sockets (alias for -f inet6).
- -0, --packet
- Display PACKET sockets (alias for -f link).
- -t, --tcp
- Display TCP sockets.
- -u, --udp
- Display UDP sockets.
- -d, --dccp
- Display DCCP sockets.
- -w, --raw
- Display RAW sockets.
- -x, --unix
- Display Unix domain sockets (alias for -f unix).
- -f FAMILY,
--family=FAMILY
- Display sockets of type FAMILY. Currently the following families are
supported: unix, inet, inet6, link, netlink.
- -A QUERY, --query=QUERY,
--socket=QUERY
- List of socket tables to dump, separated by commas. The following
identifiers are understood: all, inet, tcp, udp, raw, unix, packet,
netlink, unix_dgram, unix_stream, packet_raw, packet_dgram.
- -D FILE, --diag=FILE
- Do not display anything, just dump raw information about TCP sockets to
FILE after applying filters. If FILE is - stdout is used.
- -F FILE,
--filter=FILE
- Read filter information from FILE. Each line of FILE is interpreted like
single command line option. If FILE is - stdin is used.
- FILTER := [ state
TCP-STATE ] [ EXPRESSION ]
- Please take a look at the official documentation (Debian package
iproute-doc) for details regarding filters.
ip(8), /usr/share/doc/iproute-doc/ss.html (package
iproutedoc)
ss was written by Alexey Kuznetosv,
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>.
This manual page was written by Michael Prokop
<mika@grml.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).