about port

[iambluegary]

i am using a chat program ,and i use a patch to see my friend's ip and port.
most of them's port is 4000,but some have different ports,for example:61103,33696

i wander why the port is not same,does the port assigned by program,or by route,or anything else
by the way ,i am using oicq

[harry d brown jr]

The port assignment is done by the "chat" program and not by the system. Do you have a copy of "lsof"? It's a cute tool that shows you all files that are opened (sockets - ports - are files).

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.61/


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