Here's another way to parse the socket lines:

my ($prot,$recv_q,$send_q,$laddr,$lport,$eaddr,$eport,$status,$syn) =
    map {split ':'} split " ";

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You could also take another approach to forking the netstat process. Use magical open to make netstat's STDOUT pipe to a handle in the parent, and process the lines as you read them:
open NETSTAT, '-|', '/bin/netstat', '-na' or die $!;
while (<NETSTAT>) {
    next if /^Active/ or /^\s+Proto/ or /^$/;
    my @sockdata = map {split ':'} split " ";
    print "$/Warning: SYN! I think we're being SYN'ed$/$/"
        if $sockdata[7] =~ /syn/i;
    printf "Local: %s:%s - External: %s:%s - %s$/", @sockdata[3..7];
}

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You could keep the SYN matches, and recheck after a little sleep to verify SYN flood attacks.

Update: Corrected code to match my netstat output.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: perl regex with '\s+' by Zaxo
in thread perl regex with '\s+' by emcb

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