From: Hansang Bae (hbae@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 22:21:39 GMT-3
At 10:59 AM 10/14/2002 -0400, Sam.MicroGate@usa.telekom.de wrote:
>Hello All,
>I have a simple question that I should know. When a TCPIP client application
>(say telnet) try to access a server (say a telnet server) it uses port
>number 23 as a destination port number in its IP packet. My question is what
>is the source port number of this IP packet? Is it randomly generated or
>there is a rule for generating this source port number? Any link or a CCO
>document is appreciated.
Yup, random high port number will be used. This is commonly referred to as "ephemeral high port"
hsb
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