Networking 101: Ports, Protocols, TCP and UDP
What is up guys! In this blog, I'm going to talk about What are ports? What are Protocols? What is TCP? What is UDP? etc. A Port is a place in the computer, which it uses to communicate and host various processes. We can easily relate this theory of Ports to a shopping mall. Imagine that you visit a shopping mall. What do you see there? A lot of shops right? Now, when you look at a centralized map of the mall, you'll notice the shop and its floor and number, etc. Thus each shop has it's own shop number and each shop provides some product to you. Another example can be your own body itself!! If you want to speak, there's a particular place reserved for it, if you want to see things, there's a special place reserved for it, if you want to hear, there is a special place reserved for it and the list goes on. In the above examples, you can assume your body and the shopping mall as a computer system and the special places and the shops as ports. Similarly in computers, ...