Thanks Patrick! Maybe we could add a line to the help so people, like me, that were not aware that ss exists. AFAICS ss appeared not so long ago, I think many distributions are still using versions that do not have ss. Or I may be wrong. Regards, Maciej diff -ru linux.orig/net/ipv4/Kconfig linux/net/ipv4/Kconfig --- linux.orig/net/ipv4/Kconfig 2004-12-22 12:58:03.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/net/ipv4/Kconfig 2004-12-22 13:00:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -355,7 +355,8 @@ default y ---help--- Support for TCP socket monitoring interface used by native Linux - tools such as ss. + tools such as ss. ss comes from iproute2. + http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2/ If unsure, say Y.