SS(8)

NAME
ss - another utility to investigate sockets

SYNOPSIS
ss [options] [ FILTER ]

DESCRIPTION
ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informations than other tools.

OPTIONS
When no option is used ss displays a list of open non-listening sockets (e.g. TCP/UNIX/UDP) that have established connection.

-h, --help
    Show summary of options.

-V, --version
    Output version information.

-H, --no-header
    Suppress header line.

-n, --numeric
    Do not try to resolve service names.

-r, --resolve
    Try to resolve numeric address/ports.

-a, --all
    Display both listening and non-listening (for TCP this means established connections) sockets.

-l, --listening
    Display only listening sockets (these are omitted by default).

-o, --options
    Show timer information. For tcp protocol, the output format is:

    timer:(<timer_name>,<expire_time>,<retrans>)

    <timer_name>
        the name of the timer, there are five kind of timer names:

        on: means one of these timers: tcp retrans timer, tcp early retrans timer and tail loss probe timer

        keepalive: tcp keep alive timer

        timewait: timewait stage timer

        persist: zero window probe timer

        unknown: none of the above timers

    <expire_time>
        how long time the timer will expire

    <retrans>
        how many times the retran occurs

-e, --extended
    Show detailed socket information. The output format is:

    uid:<uid_number> ino:<inode_number> sk:<cookie>

    <uid_number>
        the user id the socket belongs to

    <inode_number>
        the socket's inode number in VFS

    <cookie>
        an uuid of the socket

-m, --memory
    Show socket memory usage. The output format is:

    skmem:(r<rmem_alloc>,rb<rcv_buf>,t<wmem_alloc>,tb<snd_buf>,f<fwd_alloc>,w<wmem_queued>,o<opt_mem>,bl<back_log>)

    <rmem_alloc>
        the memory allocated for receiving packet

    <rcv_buf>
        the total memory can be allocated for receiving packet

    <wmem_alloc>
        the memory used for sending packet (which has been sent to layer 3)

    <snd_buf>
        the total memory can be allocated for sending packet

    <fwd_alloc>
        the memory allocated by the socket as cache, but not used for receiving/sending packet yet. If need memory to send/receive packet, the memory in this cache will be used before allocate additional memory.

    <wmem_queued>
        The memory allocated for sending packet (which has not been sent to layer 3)

    <opt_mem>
        The memory used for storing socket option, e.g., the key for TCP MD5 signature

    <back_log>
        The memory used for the sk backlog queue. On a process context, if the process is receiving packet, and a new packet is received, it will be put into the sk backlog queue, so it can be received by the process immediately

-p, --processes
    Show process using socket.

-i, --info
    Show internal TCP information. Below fields may appear:

    ts  show string "ts" if the timestamp option is set

    sack
        show string "sack" if the sack option is set

    ecn show string "ecn" if the explicit congestion notification option is set

    ecnseen
        show string "ecnseen" if the saw ecn flag is found in received packets

    fastopen
        show string "fastopen" if the fastopen option is set

    cong_alg
        the congestion algorithm name, the default congestion algorithm is "cubic"

    wscale:<snd_wscale>:<rcv_wscale>
        if window scale option is used, this field shows the send scale factory and receive scale factory

    rto:<icsk_rto>
        tcp re-transmission timeout value, the unit is millisecond

    backoff:<icsk_backoff>
        used for exponential backoff re-transmission, the actual re-transmission timeout value is icsk_rto << icsk_backoff

    rtt:<rtt>/<rttvar>
        rtt is the average round trip time, rttvar is the mean deviation of rtt, their units are millisecond

    ato:<ato>
        ack timeout, unit is millisecond, used for delay ack mode

    mss:<mss>
        max segment size

    cwnd:<cwnd>
        congestion window size

    ssthresh:<ssthresh>
        tcp congestion window slow start threshold

    bytes_acked:<bytes_acked>
        bytes acked

    bytes_received:<bytes_received>
        bytes received

    segs_out:<segs_out>
        segments sent out

    segs_in:<segs_in>
        segments received

    send <send_bps>bps
        egress bps

    lastsnd:<lastsnd>
        how long time since the last packet sent, the unit is millisecond

    lastrcv:<lastrcv>
        how long time since the last packet received, the unit is millisecond

    lastack:<lastack>
        how long time since the last ack received, the unit is millisecond

    pacing_rate <pacing_rate>bps/<max_pacing_rate>bps
        the pacing rate and max pacing rate

    rcv_space:<rcv_space>
        a helper variable for TCP internal auto tuning socket receive buffer

-K, --kill
    Attempts to forcibly close sockets. This option displays sockets that are successfully closed and silently skips sockets that the kernel does not support closing. It supports IPv4 and IPv6 sockets only.

-s, --summary
    Print summary statistics. This option does not parse socket lists obtaining summary from various sources. It is useful when amount of sockets is so huge that parsing /proc/net/tcp is painful.

-Z, --context
    As the -p option but also shows process security context.

    For netlink(7) sockets the initiating process context is displayed as follows:

        1.  If valid pid show the process context.

        2.  If destination is kernel (pid = 0) show kernel initial context.

        3.  If a unique identifier has been allocated by the kernel or netlink user, show context as "unavailable". This will generally indicate that a process has more than one netlink socket active.

-z, --contexts
    As the -Z option but also shows the socket context. The socket context is taken from the associated inode and is not the actual socket context held by the kernel. Sockets are typically labeled with the context of the creating process, however the context shown will reflect any policy role, type and/or range transition rules applied, and is therefore a useful reference.

-N NSNAME, --net=NSNAME
    Switch to the specified network namespace name.

-b, --bpf
    Show socket BPF filters (only administrators are allowed to get these information).

-4, --ipv4
    Display only IP version 4 sockets (alias for -f inet).

-6, --ipv6
    Display only IP version 6 sockets (alias for -f inet6).

-0, --packet
    Display PACKET sockets (alias for -f link).

-t, --tcp
    Display TCP sockets.

-u, --udp
    Display UDP sockets.

-d, --dccp
    Display DCCP sockets.

-w, --raw
    Display RAW sockets.

-x, --unix
    Display Unix domain sockets (alias for -f unix).

-S, --sctp
    Display SCTP sockets.

-f FAMILY, --family=FAMILY
    Display sockets of type FAMILY. Currently the following families are supported: unix, inet, inet6, link, netlink.

-A QUERY, --query=QUERY, --socket=QUERY
    List of socket tables to dump, separated by commas. The following identifiers are understood: all, inet, tcp, udp, raw, unix, packet, netlink, unix_dgram, unix_stream, unix_seqpacket, packet_raw, packet_dgram, dccp, sctp.

-D FILE, --diag=FILE
    Do not display anything, just dump raw information about TCP sockets to FILE after applying filters. If FILE is - stdout is used.

-F FILE, --filter=FILE
    Read filter information from FILE. Each line of FILE is interpreted like single command line option. If FILE is - stdin is used.

FILTER := [ state STATE-FILTER ] [ EXPRESSION ]
    Please take a look at the official documentation (Debian package iproute-doc) for details regarding filters.

STATE-FILTER
STATE-FILTER allows to construct arbitrary set of states to match. Its syntax is sequence of keywords state and exclude followed by identifier of state.

Available identifiers are:
    All standard TCP states: established, syn-sent, syn-recv, fin-wait-1, fin-wait-2, time-wait, closed, close-wait, last-ack, listening and closing. all - for all the states connected - all the states except for listening and closed synchronized - all the connected states except for syn-sent bucket - states, which are maintained as minisockets, i.e. time-wait and syn-recv big - opposite to bucket

USAGE EXAMPLES

ss -t -a
    Display all TCP sockets.

ss -t -a -Z
    Display all TCP sockets with process SELinux security contexts.

ss -u -a
    Display all UDP sockets.

ss -o state established '( dport = :ssh or sport = :ssh )'
    Display all established ssh connections.

ss -x src /tmp/.X11-unix/*
    Find all local processes connected to X server.

ss -o state fin-wait-1 '( sport = :http or sport = :https )' dst 193.233.7/24
    List all the tcp sockets in state FIN-WAIT-1 for our apache to network 193.233.7/24 and look at their timers.

SEE ALSO
ip(8), /usr/share/doc/iproute-doc/ss.html (package iproute­doc),
RFC 793 - https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt (TCP states)

AUTHOR
ss was written by Alexey Kuznetsov, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>.

This manual page was written by Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).