> Ideally folks should be subshells (unless you're on a strange system or
> legacy system).
>
> netstat is now mostly obsolete. 
> Replacement for netstat is ss.  
> Replacement for  netstat -r is ip route.
> Replacement for netstat -i is ip -s link.
> Replacement for netstat -g is ip maddr.

on some vendors.  but could you answer my question?  do you use it?