

How to know the ports used in Windows 10Ĭurrently, the most used desktop operating system is Windows 10.

With the "ports" we get the communication to circulate, since in our equipment we will have to open a socket to receive the communication, or to send it. The transport layer (with TCP and UDP) is the first layer with point-to-point communication, from our computer to a remote host. In the TCP and UDP protocol, in its header, is where we will find both the source and destination ports.

Ports are in the transport layer of the TCP / IP protocol stack, ports can be source and destination, and can be TCP or UDP. Before knowing which ports are used in Windows 10, we need to talk about what a port is.
