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As we promised, the lite version of NetStat Agent - Real NetStat will be released soon. The program includes only NetStat and Statistics tools with all powerful features. You can find screenshots at the Real NetStat page.

Sometimes it is useful to know your external IP address. For example, when you share HTTP/FTP server and you do not know or forgot your IP address. In this case, if you use NetStat Agent 3.0 every time, it will be very easy for you! Because you do not need to open the Internet browser and search for a special service.

To find your IP address you must open IPConfig tool and press External IP button. After a few seconds you will see your external IP address. You may copy it to a clipboard (the right mouse click).

Question

“I have logged NetStat acitivity for a couple of days. I am analyzing the log now. I cannot find a definition of what can be recorded in the Event Column. What exactly does changed mean? What exactly does new mean? What exactly does removed mean?”

Answer

Event Columns means a log record status, for example:
1) You click on file in your browser and the browser opens a TCP connection to download file.
2) At this moment NetStat Agent (NA) found that your browser opened a new connection, so because it is a new connection, NA sets a record status as “New”.
3) But when your browser downloaded a file, it closes the opened connection and at this moment NA writes to log file that connection is closed and sets a record status as “Removed”.

A record status “Changed” means that connection state (see column “Status” in NetStat window) is changed, for example:
1) Let assume you run Skype and connected to Skype server.
2) In this case NA will find a TCP connection with status - “ESTABLISHED”.
3) Then you decide to close Skype (disconnect).
4) It means that your PC (Skype application) will send a FIN packet (a TCP signal to close connection) to a remote host (Skype server).
5) For your PC it means a changing connection status from ESTABLISHED to FIN_WAIT1.
6) So when NetStat Agent detects connection status changes it writes to log file what connection is changed and sets a record status as “Changed” to event column.

A good day to all of you (the one’s who take the time just to read my story).

My reaction for NetStat Agent is as follows.

I just use it for monitoring and logging my server, it’s finally a good tool I came accross for reading and understanding in normal human being language about whats going on in your system, with port usage, external adresses and more.
Okey, I know all commands by hand also, but this is just a good tool for doing a job easier!

Thats my reaction on NetStat Agent!

Greetings,
Peter Lazaroms
http://alienhost.nl

Each time when you query the route in the TraceRoute tool, NetStat Agent saves the request to cache. But if you want to clear this cache or remove a record from this cache, then you must open the RegEdit and find the path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Flexbyte\NetStat Agent\Tracer

In this folder, you may find records Recent.0, Recent.1 and so on. You may delete all records or only one.

The same you may do to clear the Ping history, but in Ping folder.