Command used on
MicroSoft platforms to
display the
statistics on current
TCP/IP connections using
NetBIOS over TCP/IP (
NBT).
Handy for
troubleshooting NetBIOS
issues on a
Windows machine.
The syntax is:
>NBTSTAT [-a RemoteName] [-A IP address] [-c] [-n] [-r] [-R] [-s] [S] [interval]
The switches are:
- -a Lists remote machine's name table
- -A Lists remote machine's name table
- -c Lists current system's remote name cache
- -n Lists local NetBIOS names
- -r Lists names resolved by broadcast via WINS
- -R Purges and reloads the remote name cache table
- -S Lists the sessions table with the destination IP addresses
- -s Lists sessions table converting destination IP addresses to host names via the hosts file.