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unregistered_Posting
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November 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am

what is a port?

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Anonymous
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November 7th, 2009 at 12:15 am

software or hardware?

hardware is a physical port such as the ethernet network connection, USB ports, modem ports etc.

A software port - there are two common types of software port UDP and TCP - these allow applications to connect directly to one another, different applications use different ports such as Internet Browsing uses port 80, its a good idea to block any ports not in use for security reasons.

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