🔌 Network Ports

Ports are logical channels that the TCP/IP suite uses for communication purposes

Specific processes/applications have dedicated ports from numbers 0-65535, however, the common ones are:

When an @IP Address is combined with a network port it is called a socket.
eg. 192.168.100.1:3389

Ports can be blocked by firewalls which will ultimately prevent devices using the ports designated process.