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why 65535 is the limit ?

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Why this is the limit in ports and others technology ? Why cant more than it ? :/

asked 05 Jul '13, 12:57

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65535 is the largest number that can be held in a 16 bit unsigned integer. As this is the size of the port field in TCP/UDP then that limits the range of port numbers.

answered 05 Jul '13, 13:39

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