Objectives: Learn common port numbers and services, and which transport protocol they use.
Prerequisites: you have to know about TCP/IP protocols in general.
Key terms: port numbers, network, common, protocol, services
Network ports are provided by the TCP or UDP protocols at the Transport layer. They are used by protocols in the upper layers of the OSI model. Port numbers are used to determine what protocol incoming traffic should be directed to. Ports allow a single host with a single IP address to run network services. Each port number identifies a distinct service, and each host can have 65535 ports per IP address. Port use is regulated by the Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN). By ICANN there are three categories for ports:
From 0 to 1023 — well-known ports assigned to common protocols and services
From 1024 to 49151 — registered ports assigned by ICANN to a specific service
From 49152 to 65 535 — dynamic (private, high) ports range from 49,152 to 65,535. Can be used by any service on an ad hoc basis. Ports are assigned when a session is established and released when the session ends.
Well-known ones are:
