View Full Version : What Is A Port?
Chame1eon
08-07-2004, 12:52 PM
what exactly is a port?
ziggyjuarez
08-07-2004, 12:59 PM
its a lhing you go through
uNz[i]
08-07-2004, 01:01 PM
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
Chame1eon
08-07-2004, 01:31 PM
so it's jsut a number that tells one program which other program communicate with
uNz[i]
08-07-2004, 01:53 PM
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
Chame1eon
08-08-2004, 11:25 AM
i see, (i think)
btw i bookmarked whatis.com thanks :)
uNz[i]
08-08-2004, 01:30 PM
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.
Chame1eon
08-08-2004, 08:16 PM
i like myie2
Barbarossa
08-09-2004, 08:58 AM
Originally posted by Chame1eon@7 August 2004 - 13:53
what exactly is a port?
Many things...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/port
arrynev
08-14-2004, 10:15 PM
LIVERPOOL was a port
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