Subject: Re: IPv6 Comment
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/2000 21:17:16
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:00:06PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> Well, no -- ports are service identifiers, no? That's a *what*,
> from my naive point of view...
not really. Yes, most widely used services use a well known port number,
but thats not mandatory. In general, any service can be listening to any
port number, and for the "calling" side, really any port number will be
used.
-is