{"id":35461,"date":"2018-07-28T21:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35461"},"modified":"2018-07-28T21:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:37:39","slug":"what-is-a-port-in-computer-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-a-port-in-computer-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a port in computer networking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about computer networks: the tutor offers a definition of the common networking term port.<\/h2>\n<p>A port can be physical or logical. A physical port is a plug-in socket at which to attach a device to the computer, such as a printer. USB ports comprise an example.<\/p>\n<p>A logical port, such as port 80, designates the program a request desires to connect through. Port 80 means http activity. The logical ports on a computer are 0 to 65535.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/searchnetworking.techtarget.com\/definition\/port\">searchnetworking.techtarget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uMwzsh_Dd9Y\">SimplifiedTechExplanations<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about computer networks: the tutor offers a definition of the common networking term port. A port can be physical or logical. A physical port is a plug-in socket at which to attach a device to the computer, such as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-a-port-in-computer-networking\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is a port in computer networking?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,2816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35466,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461\/revisions\/35466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}