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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

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ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

I often see that network settings have a field for logical port. What is this field.referring to?

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Exactly what it says on the tin. It forwards mail/packets received on one or more ports to specific ports on another machine on the network.

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