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Common ports and protocols

Common ports and protocols

- [Narrator] Now one thing that's important to understand when it comes to networking and our servers is understanding the various protocols that are commonly used in access. You should understand what a protocol is. It's a set of rules and procedures for communication, okay? So we have the different rules and procedures for computer communication set with the various protocols depending on what type of communication we're going to have. So I just want to kind of quickly go through some of the common protocols that you'll find people are accessing your servers with and what ports that they communicate with so that you can make sure that your firewalls are set up appropriately. So the first would be HTTP which is just our basic web content which can be found on port 80. I mean this is probably the number one most commonly used protocol in today's world, probably a very close runner up and maybe…

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