COMPUTER NETWORKING

APPLICATION LAYER

SOCKET INTERFACE PROGRAMMING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Multiple port numbers are used on the client side to define
A
Multiple simultaneous server connections
B
Multiple server connections to different servers
C
Multiple receive sockets
D
This just isn’t done
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Multiple clients can connect to the same port (say 80) on the server because on the server side, after creating a socket and binding (setting local IP and port) listen is called on the socket which tells the OS to accept incoming connections.

Detailed explanation-2: -HTTP and FTP protocols can use multiple TCP connections between the same client and the server.

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