Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish · 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 FiveEnglish · 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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Haha knew that one sounded familiar but it’s been a while
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  What’s the reference?
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    It’s the port for a Minecraft Java server.
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    It’s for Minecraft, haha
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