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I often see that network settings have a field for logical port. What is this field.referring to?

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[โ€“] Brkdncr@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If an ip address is a house number, then a port is an apartment number.

[โ€“] DealBreaker@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's the only true ELI5 answer