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Re: Access on Port 0



Well, that will teach me to trust my faulty memory when answering a
question.  I was confusing UDP and ICMP (and I'm not entirely sure my
answer would have been correct even if we were talking about ICMP).

Hopefully someone with more of a clue can answer the original question.

    --- Wade

On 11 Oct 2002 19:09:13 PDT, Ben Pfaff writes:
>Wade Richards <wade@wabyn.net> writes:
>
>> Notice the "PROTO=UDP" part of the message.  It means that this
>> is a UDP packet, not a TCP packet.  UDP is not a socket-based
>> protocol, so the port number is meaningless for UDP packets.
>
>This statement is nonsense.  Both TCP and UDP have 16-bit port
>numbers and both use the sockets API.
>
>
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