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Common TCP Port Assignments


Common TCP Port Assignments

Common TCP Port Assignments

Every application which intends to receive data from a TCP/IP network calls it TCP/IP service to acquire a "port," a 16-bit number which will uniquely belong to that application on that particular host. Any well-formed incoming datagram with that port number in its TCP or UDP headers will be delivered to that application. Fragmented datagrams only contain port information in the first datagram fragment (fragment 0). By convention, any transmitting application also owns a port number on its host, and it supplies that port number in the destination port field of the datagrams it sends. Table B-1 lists the TCP port assignment for each port.

Table B-1 : TCP Port Assignments

Port # Keyword Protocol
7 ECHO Echo
9 DISCARD Discard
11 USERS Active Users
13 DAYTIME Daytime
17 QUOTE Quote of the Day
19 CHARGEN Character Generator
20 FTP-DATA File Transfer (Default Data)
21 FTP File Transfer (Control)
23 TELNET Telnet
25 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer
37 TIME Time
43 NICNAME Who Is
53 DOMAIN Domain Name Server
79 FINGER Finger
101 HOSTNAME NIC Host Name Server
103 X400 X400
104 X400-SND X400-SND
113 AUTH Authentication Service
117 UUCP-PATH UUCP Path Service
119 NNTP USENETNetworkNewsTransferProtocol
512 rexec UNIX rexec (Control)
513 rlogin UNIX rlogin
514 rsh UNIX rsh and rcp
515 UNIX Line Printer Remote Spooling

 

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