What is a Port?
First, let’s define what a port is. According to the IEFT, a port is:
“A logical entity for Internet communication. Ports serve two main purposes:
1. They provide a demultiplexing identifier to separate transport sessions between the same pair of endpoints
2. They may also identify the application protocol and associated service to which processes connect.”
In plain English, this simply means that a port is an endpoint through which data flows back and forth between two computers over a network. A computer has 65535 ports available to share information. These port numbers are based on a 16-bit number, which is where we derive the total number of available ports (0 to 65535).
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