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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

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ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

I often see that network settings have a field for logical port. What is this field.referring to?

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And the best port of all, 25565
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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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