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From: deanr@lakesys.UUCP (Dean Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Port Number
Keywords: How to pick one
Message-ID: <459@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 22:46:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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My company will be producing commercial TCP/IP
server  and client software. Question:
how do we pick a port number that will not collide
with another software package's port number?
I have already tentatively selected a "large"
and hopefully improbable number, but I'd like
to do better than "toss darts in the dark" looking
for a "good" number to use.

Please email me. My node's news delivery has not
been 100% reliable recently. Thank you.

deanr@lakesys.lakesys.com
deanr@lakesys.UUCP
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