On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:20:35AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Those would be the port numbers methinks. If I'm not mistaken, it'd be > typical to establish a connection to a web server on port 80, but the > data transfers would go over a high port. Otherwise you'd only be able > to have one client connected to the server at any given point in time. > But I could have that all wrong.
The first part is correct, the second not. A socket is a unique pair of (IP,port) pairs. So you could only have one connection to www.example.com:80 from client.example.net:6363... but you could also have a connection from client.example.net:6364, as well as from foo.example.org:6363 or anything else. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves.