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Ports and IPv6

Ports and IPv6. Ports. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), used for communication

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Ports and IPv6

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  1. Ports and IPv6

  2. Ports • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), used for communication • Generally speaking, a computer has a single physical connection to the network. All data destined for a particular computer arrives through that connection. However, the data may be intended for different applications running on the computer. So how does the computer know to which application to forward the data? • Through the use of ports. Data transmitted over the Internet is accompanied by addressing information that identifies the computer and the port for which it is destined. The computer is identified by its 32-bit IP address, which IP uses to deliver data to the right computer on the network. Ports are identified by a 16-bit number, which TCP and UDP use to deliver the data to the right application. [From sun.com]

  3. Ports • Port numbers range from 0 to 65,535 because ports are represented by 16-bit numbers. The port numbers ranging from 0 - 1023 are restricted; they are reserved for use by well-known services such as HTTP and FTP and other system services. These ports are called well-known ports. • There are 65,535 port numbers available for application processes that use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The same number of ports are available for application processes that use User Datagram Protocol (UDP). [from sun.com]

  4. Ports From Microsoft.com

  5. IPv6 • Present IPv4 is used • This is 32 bits, and has about 4,300,000,000 address spaces (2^32 – 1) • IPv6 is started to be implemented. • IPv6 is 128 bits giving 3.4 x 10^38 addresses • Allows for an (almost) inexhaustible supply of addresses.

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