Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:56:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: "G.R. Gaudreau" <grgaud@sprint.ca> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports (was: FreeBSD main platform & Linux) Message-ID: <XFMail.980822205651.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19980822164340.007a5100@pop3.sprint.ca>
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On 22-Aug-98 G.R. Gaudreau wrote: > > Thanks a bunch Allen, I wasn't sure what those were. I knew about the > software ports, and had heard about the IP ports, but didn't know how > and why they were used. The term "soft ports" was my way of > distiguinshing between hardware ports (Com 1 & 2, printer ports on > computers) and IP ports which seem te me to be of the "software" > type. Perhaps that's a mistaken understanding I have of the > difference between what is hardware and software. I assumed that > because IP ports are part of a software program, that I could > legitimately call them soft ports, as opposed to physical ports on a > computer's motherboard, though I realize that the term may not be > commonly used. For some real fun, try telnetting to machines using some of these port numbers. For instance, you can telnet into a news server using "telnet host 119" and actually issue NNTP protocol commands and see what the server does. Port 25 (and the proper remote host) will get you access to a system's mail server. Toys for geeks, you know. :-) ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Date: 22-Aug-98 Time: 20:54:00 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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