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

  • @tallwookie
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    41 year ago

    it’s like a gate - certain kinds of traffic (what type it is) goes though the gate, other types of traffic goes through a different gate. software is designed to look for data that passes through specific gates.

    for example, unsecured http data is port 80, secured http is port 443.