It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter.
Please guide me into enlightenment.
If an IP address is like a building address for a mall, ports are like suite numbers of the different businesses inside the mall.
There are a few types of ports, but mostly you deal with tcp and udp. Tcp ports create a connection, udp is connectionless.