A number that identifies which application to communicate with within the same IP address.
A number, in the transport layer, that distinguishes multiple applications running on the same host. Ports range from 0 to 65535, and specific services are conventionally tied to specific ports -- 80/443 for the web, 22 for SSH, and so on. If an IP address is the building, the port number is the room number.
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