On Friday 26 November 2010 21:55:09 Brian R Masterman wrote: > Seems that I may have found part of the problem. I had ktorrent running > as a automatically startup application. > > I have also enabled my Firestarter but still find that 'netstat -a' > shows a lot of connections that I cannot explain. > > Doing a; > netstat -pta | egrep LISTEN > shows; > tcp 0 0 linux:mysql *:* > LISTEN 1408/mysqld > tcp 0 0 *:www *:* > LISTEN 1954/apache2 > tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* > LISTEN 1109/sshd > tcp 0 0 linux:ipp *:* > LISTEN 1132/cupsd > tcp 0 0 *:gdomap *:* > LISTEN 1489/gdomap > tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* > LISTEN 1109/sshd > tcp6 0 0 linux:ipp [::]:* > LISTEN 1132/cupsd > > Which I would expect, but; > netstat -a | egrep CONNECTED | wc -l > > Shows; > 566 > > So my big question is what are all these connections that are established? > > Brian M >
Further to my last e-mail I THINK netstat -a | egrep CONNECTED | wc-l list all the ports which are in use by programs running on your PC, try netstat -ape Which gives a full list all these program, can somebody confirm I am right Tim -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
