How to Set Up a Static IP Address for Port Forwarding. A static IP address gives a fixed address to your computer on the local network at your business. Port forwarding is used by computers on the ...

How to Add a TCP/IP Printer Port. You can connect multiple printers to a single computer in your office and use them to print business documents in various formats. Your computer communicates with ...

In TCP/IP and UDP networks, a port is an endpoint to a logical connection and the way a client program specifies a specific server program on a computer in a network. Some ports have been preassigned ...

Learn how to use netstat commands to watch open ports. Using the –b, -o, -an, interval, and tasklist commands, you can find IP addresses, port numbers, connections, process IDs and associated ...

Port Query (PortQry.exe) is a command-line utility in the Windows operating system that you can use to help troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity issues.

Note that the IP protocol number is not the same as the port number (see TCP/IP port), which refers to a higher level, such as the application layer.

Also called "port mapping," port forwarding is directing traffic from the outside world to the appropriate server inside a local TCP/IP network. Internet services are identified by a standard port ...