Re: Test Availability of TCP Port?

From: William Stacey [MVP] (staceywREMOVE_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:05:36 -0500

> Possibly. Along those lines, by the way - I reckon port numbers ought
> to actually be UTF-8 strings. That way it wouldn't be too hard to
> pretty much guarantee that no-one else was using your port. There are

Well maybe. I have seen issues with the endpoint mapper that ms uses.
Sometimes this can go wild. Think more related to nic issues more then
applications gobbling up endpoints, but that can happen too I guess.

> naturally fit on multiple ports. FTP is (IIRC) a good example of this,
> with one protocol for the control, and another for the data streaming.

Ok. Thanks. 

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William Stacey, MVP