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The port helps the server in identifying which application the user wants to connect to. It is a number that identifies a specific server application (software program) on the server.
Many ports can be supported by a single server as a server can support 65,536 different server applications.
Of these, ports from 0 to 1023 are kept aside for the well known applications.
Except those ports; we can use the remaining ones for our own server programs.
If two server applications are using different protocols, they can be run on a single port.
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