Ports are the points of ingress/egress for the data being sent or received by devices on the internet. Everything connected to the internet has an IP address, and everything on your computer that wants to send things over the internet will send it out both from and to a specific port.
Ports are the points of ingress/egress for the data being sent or received by devices on the internet. Everything connected to the internet has an IP address, and everything on your computer that wants to send things over the internet will send it out both from and to a specific port.