So, networking is the interfacing of devices to share information.
Ports are very much like street numbers (or even better apartment numbers). Fun fact: in Italian the word for "door" and "port" are the same word.
Packets go out from one device which has an address and a port, to a destination address and a port.
The combination address and port identify a particular application on the sending or receiving end (the socket).
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So, networking is the interfacing of devices to share information.
Ports are very much like street numbers (or even better apartment numbers). Fun fact: in Italian the word for "door" and "port" are the same word.
Packets go out from one device which has an address and a port, to a destination address and a port.
The combination address and port identify a particular application on the sending or receiving end (the socket).