15 Useful "Sockstat Command Examples" to Find Open Ports in FreeBSD | Linux Today

15 Useful “Sockstat Command Examples” to Find Open Ports in FreeBSD

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Ravi Saive
Sep 28, 2017

Sockstat is a versatile command line utility used for displaying network and system opened sockets in FreeBSD. Mainly, sockstat command is installed by default in FreeBSD and it’s commonly used for displaying the name of the processes who opened a certain network port on a FreeBSD system.

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