What Is A Port?
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: Chame1eon
what exactly is a port?
Posted by: ziggyjuarez
its a lhing you go through
Posted by: uNz[i]
If I have a computer related question, I always ask whatis.com (http://whatis.techtarget.com/). :)
Here's what I found when I searched there for port.
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDe...i212807,00.html (http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212807,00.html)
Edit: added whatis.com linky
Posted by: Chame1eon
so it's jsut a number that tells one program which other program communicate with
Posted by: uNz[i]
arg... I wish I was further along with my networking course. :rolleyes:
My interpretation: a port is a vitual 'connection or access point' used by a program to access a network or resource.
So it's basically, the program telling the computer it's running on what port number it (the program) wants to use to access whatever it needs to connect to.
Like how K-Lite always used to use port 1214 to access the fasttrack network.
Hope that makes sense and is reasonably correct. :lol:
Edit: additional
Posted by: Chame1eon
i see, (i think)
btw i bookmarked whatis.com thanks :)
Posted by: uNz[i]
Good move.. and you're most welcome. :)
Oh yeah.. do you use Firefox?
There's a whatis.com search engine available for the Firefox search bar.
It can be found in the Reference section.
Posted by: Chame1eon
i like myie2
Posted by: Barbarossa
Originally posted by Chame1eon@7 August 2004 - 13:53
what exactly is a port?
Many things...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/port
Posted by: arrynev
LIVERPOOL was a port