Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years 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 Five@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

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

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@2dollarsim@lemmy.world
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1•2 years ago
Haha knew that one sounded familiar but it’s been a while
- Dran
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  0•2 years ago
  What’s the reference?
  - @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    1•2 years ago
    It’s for Minecraft, haha
  - Ignisnex
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    1•2 years ago
    It’s the port for a Minecraft Java server.

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