What are Ports?There functions.

Answer Posted / harsha

A process running on localhost is called client and client
who needs services from remote host called server.
When Datagrams need to be deliver At layer 4. In computer
Tcp/ip protocol stack , there are so many no of process
runs. So How tcp /ip will findout exact process for which
this datagram need to be delivered. So each process is
identified based upon Port nos. Port nos function is for
identification of each processes run on a client/server.
Ports types
1) well known
2) registered/ephemeral

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