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TCP Port Numbers

TCP Port Numbers are designed to distinguish multiple applications running on a single device with one IP address from one another. In the TCP header, there are "SourcePort" and "DestinationPort" fields which are used to indicate the message sending process and receiving process identities defined. The combination of the IP address and the port number is called "socket".

 

 

 

Standard Organization

IANA

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