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What are ports and protocols really?

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Mar 15, 20268889 views
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I hear people talk about ports and protocols (in relation to computer networking), and they often provide analogies for them (for example: "a port is much like a shipping port, it sends and receives data like a shipping port sends and receives goods from other ports") and things like that. I unders…

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Futher to Hello71s answer, it might help to visualise a port by thinking about the structure of an address in a packet. A packet being a unit of data passed around a network. TCP is an example of a transport layer protocol that uses ports, and is co…

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