This might be of interest/use. re port-id List of Registered ports 0 to 1023 http://www.teknovations.net/enp/protocol/ip/ports00000.htm List of Registered ports 1024 through 49151 http://www.teknovations.net/enp/protocol/ip/ports01024.htm Cheers Allen K ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 5:38 AM Subject: [REBOL] Is it possible to obtain IP address of incoming connection? Re:(5) > Hi Petr, > > port-id is the port number of the TCP connection... eg, port=80 for http, > etc. While conventions exist for all the low numbered ports, you can > generally use higher numbered ones for your own applications w/o difficulty. > Just have to make sure they're unique on the two machines that are in > communication... and that they pass through any firewalls appropriately. > What it's "good for" is that the same pair of IP's can have many TCP > connections open for differet purposes at the same time. And so people know > in advance what the typical port is for certain purposes... FTP, POP, SMTP, > HTTP, etc. > > R. > ============ > >btw: what does port/port-id means? What is the number good for? Is it id number > >of socket reserved for communication or what? > > > >Thanks, > > > >-pekr- > > > >
