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Hawkeye
Asked: 2017-04-09 14:07:01 +0800 CST

What is kctl running on port 22 on a mac?

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I'm trying to free up port 22 for a docker container (that I'll have to run in another port mapping).

I'm running

netstat -a | grep 22

One of the results I'm getting is:

kctl       0      0     22      9 com.apple.netsrc

My question is: What is kctl running on port 22 on a mac?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    "kctl" means that is a kernel control socket, not a network socket. This is a separate socket domain for local communication with kernel extensions (see Apple's developer documentation). Here's a partial display from my computer:

    $ netstat -an | grep -B2 kctl | head
Active kernel control sockets
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q   unit     id name
kctl       0      0      1      2 com.apple.nke.sockwall
kctl       0      0      1      5 com.apple.net.necp_control
kctl       0      0      2      5 com.apple.net.necp_control
kctl       0      0      3      5 com.apple.net.necp_control
kctl       0      0      1      6 com.apple.net.netagent
kctl       0      0      2      6 com.apple.net.netagent
kctl       0      0      3      6 com.apple.net.netagent
kctl       0      0      4      6 com.apple.net.netagent

    Summary: ignore it, it's not relevant to what you're trying to do.

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