On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:40:03PM -0700, Don Calfa wrote:
> You think that port number is available on a 64bit unit running IPv6?
No. Ports are a function of TCP (and UDP, for that matter, but that's
not important right now), which functions independently of IP. Ports
are 16 bits in length, which can hold 65,536 different values (from 0 to
65,535).
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Course/Section4/8.htm
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc793.txt
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