Use of netstat to check communication between a printer and an IP address

Question

Someone told me that you could use the netstat command to check communications between a printer and a foreign country's IP address. I cannot find an example or an explanation on how and of course this guy didn't say.

Answer 1

For this you'll likely need wireshark or similar tools.

netstat is only useful for local connections.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/netstat

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Answer 2

This method may help.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/nettcpip/test-netconnection?view=win10-ps

check the printer manual for the ports used.

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Answer 3

Hi ,

You can use Port Query tool to check printer ports for successful communication.

You can download the Port Query from following link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24009

Best Regards,

Candy

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Answer 4

I may not have been clear enough in my original question. Here is the scenario - You have a printer somewhere on a nationwide network that is setting off alarms because it is communicating with an IP in a country that it should NOT be communicating with and you sitting in a remote location want to use netstat to observe the traffic between that printer and other IPs is there a way to do it with netstat.
I had a security engineer tell me there was a way to do it, but he did not give details.
Thanks to everyone for all the help.