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"Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com> writes:

> I am in need of a tool that verifies if a network port is good or bad, is there
> a tool for bsd that can do this?

It kind of depends what you mean by "good" and "bad."
For varying definitions of those terms, you might want 
sockstat(1), nessus, nmap, or any of several other things.