Network admins generally manage the devices in a network and allocate and free up ports and interfaces to ensure continuous uptime and bandwidth-hog-free network operations. Closely monitoring SNMP devices is a major part of this. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP [...]
First of all, we recommend that you read our other post entitled "TCP/UDP Ports". But, what are free port scanner tools? A port scan learns which ports on a router or firewall are open, and can use this information to find a computer system’s potential weaknesses. A port-scanner tool asks about each port, one at [...]
This post is dedicated to TCP/UDP ports. But what's port? In computer networking, a port is a communication endpoint. A computer port is a type of electronic, software (or programming) related docking point through which information flows from a program on your computer or to your computer from the Internet or another computer in a [...]