I need to see open connections this moment - With Iptables i can only see logs

[Sjors Gielen]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 21:21:54 +0100,
>   Carlos Carrero Gutierrez <mgdpz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, i use Iptables and i would like to find a tool or software in order
>> to see my open connections. In doesn't care if it's a gui or not, and it
>> can be not interactive (of course). 
>>
>> Wireshark capture paquets but i can't be constantly searching if a
>> paquet is correct or not.
>>
>> Somebody could help me?
> 
> Look at lsof if you are interested in what programs or users correspond to
> thos connections.
> If you are more interested in flows iptables uses state (at least if you
> are using --cstate) and there should be a way to dump that information.
> This will tell you about connectionless protocols that were recently
> used in addition to connections.

When we're using netstat anyway, I'd suggest netstat -p for that.

Sjors