A Port basically serves as an interface between your computer and the internet or other computers in the network. Every communication over the web is exchanged using these ports, so they are an ...

As our network continues to grow, we are trying have standards as to reserving certain port numbers for access points, certain ones for printers, etc. Another challenge is to prevent ports from being ...

If you need to scan your network, nmap is the tool to use. Nmap can be installed on any Linux distribution. Nmap has several very handy commands. The nmap command (short for network mapper) is a ...

There are many reasons why you might need to determine what process is using a particular port or, conversely, what port(s) a particular process has open. There are also a number of tools such as lsof ...

Any connection initiated by your server will have a source port above 1024 as all ports below 1024 are registered ports that are supposed to be used only by the specific application. Anything of 1024 ...