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How to count the number of open network connections on Linux

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Sep 12, 2013

One of system resources to monitor closely as a system administrator is network connections. In order to maintain adequate networking performance on a server, you need to watch out for any abnormal behavior in network connections. This tutorial describes how to monitor active network connections, and how to count the number of open network connections on Linux.
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