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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re TCP Ports -- and the little guy listening

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re TCP Ports -- and the little guy listening
  • From: Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:06:57 -0400
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:02:31PM -0400, William Case wrote:
> Thank you Kevin;
> 
> Does the port number in the header end up as, or refer to, a specific
> physical location on my computer (memory) or is it just a label that
> tells my cpu which program to call in order to process the message?  

It is just a label.  Memory allocation location has nothing to do with
it.

mh

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