Understanding socket and port in TCP

Khoa Pham
Khoa Pham
Sep 4, 2018 · 4 min read
Source: Parkeology

When digging into the world of TCP, I get many terminologies I don’t know any misconceptions. But with the help of those geeks on SO, the problems were demystified. Now it’s time to sum up and share with others :D

What defines a unique connection ?

There are 5 elements that identify a connection. They call them 5-tuple

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