Motivation In this post, I'm going to go over two tools for inspecting the socket states ( netstat and ss), and why to choose one over the other (spoiler: you can really choose either). This is not going to be a 12 ways to inspect socket states article, there are lots

I've been collecting information for a "Practical Guide to Linux Networking" by reading material I can find. Two things I've been reading recently are: * A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute [https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf] * a presentation by Richard A