Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish • 1 year ago

ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

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ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish • 1 year ago

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

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Dran
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3•1 year ago
What’s the reference?
- Ignisnex
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  8•1 year ago
  It’s the port for a Minecraft Java server.
- @RGB3x3
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  6•1 year ago
  It’s for Minecraft, haha
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