At 09:44 AM 6/1/99 +0100, Jessen, Per wrote:
>A port number is a half-word, so you can see values 1025-65535.
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that a port number is 16 bits? Word
size varies from machine to machine...on the Cray XM/P I used to use a
"half word" was 32 bits... :^)
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