File-sharing applications and other programs that access a transmission control protocol/Internet protocol network use ports to route traffic to a destination. Most routers, however, use a firewall to ...
Netstat, the TCP/IP networking utility, has a simple set of options and identifies a computer’s listening ports, along with incoming and outgoing network connections. This data can be very helpful if ...
A number from 0 through 1023 used to identify a network service on a private IP network or the public Internet. Residing in a field in the TCP or UDP header, the port number directs packets to the ...