March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 38m
English
There are various ways to access data remotely over the network. All methods are built upon the basic networking described earlier.
When communicating over a network to a host machine with TCP or UDP, a port address is used to specify the application that should receive the network request. Port numbers 0 through 1024 are reserved ports that are identical among all hosts and available only to applications with root-level privileges. There are 65536 total ports available. The /etc/services file in HP-UX describes all of the assigned networking ports.
FTP (file transfer protocol) is commonly used on UNIX system to transfer file data between machines. On HP-UX, the ftpd daemon handles listening on ...
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