A Port basically serves as an interface between your computer and the internet or other computers in the network. Every communication over the web is exchanged using these ports, so they are an ...

10 ways to check ports in Linux to help troubleshoot systems Your email has been sent System and network troubleshooting often involves checking and obtaining information about ports to ensure ...

I'm writting a server program, don't know how far I'll get but I'm giving it a try. What I need to do is open a new port for each user (connection). How, programaticly, do I check if a certain port is ...

I've seldom seen ports actually go bad...usually they just disable themselves when they detect abnormalities, like late-abort-collisions and such. This is the default behavior, but can be modified on ...