In software terms, especially at the operating system level, a port is a logical construct that identifies a specific process/application or a type of network service and each network service running on a Linux system uses a particular protocol (the most common being the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol)) and a
ss command is a tool that is used for displaying network socket related information on a Linux system. The tool displays more detailed information that the netstat command which is used for displaying active socket connections. In this guide, we delve in and see how the ss command can be used to display varied socket
The state of a port is either open, filtered, closed, or unfiltered. A port is said to be open if an application on the target machine is listening for connections/packets on that port. In this article, we will explain four ways to check open ports and also will show you how to find which application
A very useful tool in administering a Linux network is the ss command. You can identify socket statistics with this command. The ss command is very similar to the netstat command. However, you can gain more useful information about TCP and state information with the ss command. The ss command is fast. Information is very
