From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 22 18:59:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02246 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02233 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA15104; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:56:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19980822164340.007a5100@pop3.sprint.ca> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:56:51 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: "G.R. Gaudreau" Subject: Re: Ports (was: FreeBSD main platform & Linux) Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 22-Aug-98 G.R. Gaudreau wrote: > > Thanks a bunch Allen, I wasn't sure what those were. I knew about the > software ports, and had heard about the IP ports, but didn't know how > and why they were used. The term "soft ports" was my way of > distiguinshing between hardware ports (Com 1 & 2, printer ports on > computers) and IP ports which seem te me to be of the "software" > type. Perhaps that's a mistaken understanding I have of the > difference between what is hardware and software. I assumed that > because IP ports are part of a software program, that I could > legitimately call them soft ports, as opposed to physical ports on a > computer's motherboard, though I realize that the term may not be > commonly used. For some real fun, try telnetting to machines using some of these port numbers. For instance, you can telnet into a news server using "telnet host 119" and actually issue NNTP protocol commands and see what the server does. Port 25 (and the proper remote host) will get you access to a system's mail server. Toys for geeks, you know. :-) ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Conrad Sabatier Date: 22-Aug-98 Time: 20:54:00 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message