On Friday, Jul 9, 2004, at 00:09 Australia/Sydney, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote:
'' Port numbers are not restricted to four digits, or to any specific number. The clients manual describes their specification. ''
Just to pick bones, 'cause this just confused someone here, port numbers can go from 0-65535, although I'm not sure if 0 is actually valid.
FYA (For Your Amusement): I don't think port 0 is supposed to be valid, but I have seen it used, UCX 3.x appeared to allow its use, and I tripped over a [badly written] application using TCP port 0 running on and old VAX. Needless to say, it broke after a UCX upgrade :)
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