netstat help

w^rl0rd

Why is it that when I do a netstat, my local and foreign address fields are ports on my computer. For example, here is a line from a netstat command on my machine:

TCP CPU:1025 CPU:1772 TIME_WAIT

RussS

try typing netstat ? and you will get a list of switches to use ....

NETSTAT [-a] [-e] [-n] [-o] [-s] [-p proto] [-r] [interval]

-a Displays all connections and listening ports.
-e Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with th
option.
-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.
-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connec
-p proto Shows connections for the protocol specified by proto; pro
may be any of: TCP, UDP, TCPv6, or UDPv6. If used with th
option to display per-protocol statistics, proto may be an
IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, or UDPv6.
-r Displays the routing table.
-s Displays per-protocol statistics. By default, statistics
shown for IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, and UDP
the -p option may be used to specify a subset of the defau
interval Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds
between each display. Press CTRL+C to stop redisplaying
statistics. If omitted, netstat will print the current
configuration information once.