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echo: nthelp
to: Gregg
from: Geo.
date: 2004-05-28 05:59:04
subject: Re: Default network ports for Windows XP

From: "Geo." 

"Gregg"  wrote in message
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> I don't understand the concept of listening on dynamically allocated ports.
> How does a potential client know on which port to connect if the port is
> not known a priori? Is this information communicated over a separate well-
> known port?

epmap port, they connect to that first and whatever (rpc?) holds that port
open then tells them what the dynamic high port is that they need.

Geo.

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