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Hi
Are ports only a convention or they define the protocol...
I could be so wrong, but my understanding is that daemon servers (ssh, apache, ftp) listen to specific ports, mostly as a matter of standardization/convienence. Example, apache listens to :80, but you could make it listen to another port if you wanted. You would need a reason as web browsers make requests on port :80, so if you made apache listen to :81, then web browsers would not hit your apache port without be redirected by a masq/firewall/router type thing. I'm guessing it make no sense to randomly hide your ports since someone could sniff your traffic and figure out where it's going. Again, that's off the top of my head, and is more a gut feeling based on my feeble understanding than anything. ===== Daniel Woodard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com