diff --git a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt index 5e21f7cb638332f3eac08536c580dbc26b94298f..4a79209e77a7c42ed172d0e7a3478ef17c5174bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ This document describes the interfaces /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6. +Note that these interfaces are deprecated in favor of tcp_diag. These /proc interfaces provide information about currently active TCP -connections, and are implemented by tcp_get_info() in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and -tcp6_get_info() in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c, respectively. +connections, and are implemented by tcp4_seq_show() in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +and tcp6_seq_show() in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c, respectively. It will first list all listening TCP sockets, and next list all established TCP connections. A typical entry of /proc/net/tcp would look like this (split