IOS: show tcp vty

On Cisco IOS, this is a very useful command “show tcp vty xx” to show TCP statistics of the VTY session. If you think your terminal is running slow because of packet loss or delay then this command will provide visibility. The other cause is the CPU/Memory running slow if you don’t see any  errors on the TCP (as you can see below).

You will need to run the command for each VTY in use, but mostly I use for myself to check if its the network or the box.

It can also be useful for packet capture filtering of the console session since the source port of SSH Client is shown here.

If the link is lossy then look at the “datagrams” section and check the Smooth Round Trip Time (SRTT).

r1#sh tcp vty 0

tty66, virtual tty from host 192.168.10.130
Connection state is ESTAB, I/O status: 1, unread input bytes: 0
Local host: 10.216.4.10, Local port: 22
Foreign host: 192.168.10.130, Foreign port: 54596

Enqueued packets for retransmit: 1, input: 0 mis-ordered: 0 (0 bytes)

Event Timers (current time is 0x18C84473E):
Timer Starts Wakeups Next
Retrans 409 0 0x18C844865
TimeWait 0 0 0x0
AckHold 321 1 0x0
SendWnd 0 0 0x0
KeepAlive 824 0 0x18C853196
GiveUp 0 0 0x0
PmtuAger 0 0 0x0
DeadWait 0 0 0x0

iss: 2955761392 snduna: 2955805244 sndnxt: 2955805264 sndwnd: 65535
irs: 472603036 rcvnxt: 472609745 rcvwnd: 3908 delrcvwnd: 220

SRTT: 300 ms, RTTO: 303 ms, RTV: 3 ms, KRTT: 0 ms
minRTT: 4 ms, maxRTT: 401 ms, ACK hold: 200 ms
Flags: passive open, higher precedence, retransmission timeout
 keepalive running, nagle

TCB is waiting for TCP Process (139)

Datagrams (max data segment is 536 bytes):
Rcvd: 778 (out of order: 0), with data: 321, total data bytes: 6708
Sent: 503 (retransmit: 0, fastretransmit: 0), with data: 441, total data bytes: 43871
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