Show HN: Somo – a human friendly alternative to netstat

106 pointsposted a day ago
by hollow64

24 Comments

ale42

a day ago

Is there an option to disable the table mode (or at least horizontal lines, don't care about the others)? It's a lot of wasted space in the terminal if you have lots of connections open.

nubb

a day ago

i’ve typed netstat -pna so many times in my life using something else would totally ruin me

mekster

11 hours ago

How is it possible to live without aliases? Typing the original command every time, even though history lookup may help, would totally ruin me.

I have `netstat -lntpu` aliased as `nst`. (Along with `s` as `sudo`.)

spapas82

a day ago

I use netstat -nap instead !

imiric

a day ago

-tulpen for me. Easy to remember for Dutch speakers :)

kreetx

13 hours ago

Not that `ss` from iproute2 is a newer alternitive to `netstat`. (The common cli flags are the same though, so not better in that regard.)

mrweasel

a day ago

Very nice. I constantly struggle to remember the correct parameters to netstat and this seems to return the information that I need in 90% of my use cases.

at0mic22

a day ago

Think it should be explicitly stated that it is not available on Mac OS as procfs does not support it

Zekio

a day ago

Readme only mentions linux, so why bother mentioning Mac OS?

cls59

a day ago

README also leads with a screenshot that has macOS window styling. So, "works on Mac" is a reasonable first impression to draw.

qualeed

a day ago

Before you get to that screenshot, you have to get past the big, bold sentence that says "A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.".

krunck

a day ago

There are MacOS-like themes available. Eg: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1275087/

293984j29384

a day ago

Nobody is questioning what themes are available on gnome. Including a screenshot of the software running in a window that very much looks like macOS X is simply misleading.

Vilian

a day ago

Linux is DEs support themes

at0mic22

a day ago

Cause it's obviously a Rust crate, you would kinda hope that it might compile at MacOs. In 99% of cases that works.

diggan

a day ago

If a Rust crate uses anything from the OS, and doesn't mention that OS, I wouldn't expect it to work on that OS, regardless if it's Windows, Linux or macOS. Just like graphical crates state what APIs they support, and if Metal is not mentioned for example, it is most likely not supported.

at0mic22

a day ago

You wouldn't know unless running crate install.

I use lsof -i a lot on Mac, its not that I'm criticizing, but mostly disappointed.

The title `A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux` is pretty clear.

at0mic22

a day ago

Nah, homebrew made apple guys believe they get pretty much everything Linux has. Who would expect an exception?