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From: mni@techops.cray.com (Michael Nittmann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: When is a link saturated?
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Date: 22 Jan 91 09:45:04 GMT
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... and the multiple ports, not only reserved well known ports,
show, how the tcp layer does the session management.
If you look at it this way , that tcp not only
provides for the transport service but also the 
session management, then this port arithmetic 
should be somewhat more understandable.

michael
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