1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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4 The proc/net/tcp and proc/net/tcp6 variables
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7 This document describes the interfaces /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6.
8 Note that these interfaces are deprecated in favor of tcp_diag.
10 These /proc interfaces provide information about currently active TCP
11 connections, and are implemented by tcp4_seq_show() in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
12 and tcp6_seq_show() in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c, respectively.
14 It will first list all listening TCP sockets, and next list all established
15 TCP connections. A typical entry of /proc/net/tcp would look like this (split
16 up into 3 parts because of the length of the line)::
18 46: 010310AC:9C4C 030310AC:1770 01
19 | | | | | |--> connection state
20 | | | | |------> remote TCP port number
21 | | | |-------------> remote IPv4 address
22 | | |--------------------> local TCP port number
23 | |---------------------------> local IPv4 address
24 |----------------------------------> number of entry
26 00000150:00000000 01:00000019 00000000
27 | | | | |--> number of unrecovered RTO timeouts
28 | | | |----------> number of jiffies until timer expires
29 | | |----------------> timer_active (see below)
30 | |----------------------> receive-queue
31 |-------------------------------> transmit-queue
33 1000 0 54165785 4 cd1e6040 25 4 27 3 -1
34 | | | | | | | | | |--> slow start size threshold,
35 | | | | | | | | | or -1 if the threshold
36 | | | | | | | | | is >= 0xFFFF
37 | | | | | | | | |----> sending congestion window
38 | | | | | | | |-------> (ack.quick<<1)|ack.pingpong
39 | | | | | | |---------> Predicted tick of soft clock
40 | | | | | | (delayed ACK control data)
41 | | | | | |------------> retransmit timeout
42 | | | | |------------------> location of socket in memory
43 | | | |-----------------------> socket reference count
44 | | |-----------------------------> inode
45 | |----------------------------------> unanswered 0-window probes
46 |---------------------------------------------> uid
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52 1 retransmit-timer is pending
53 2 another timer (e.g. delayed ack or keepalive) is pending
54 3 this is a socket in TIME_WAIT state. Not all fields will contain
56 4 zero window probe timer is pending
57 == ================================================================