What is a Port


What is a Port?

A port identifies an application or a service. It has been set up this way. There are TCP ports and UDP ports.

Servers can accept multiple connections on a single port because of active and passive sockets.

However, the important thing to remember is that there are two types of ports: well known and ephemeral.

I understand what a port is. What is a well known port?
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