With ports do msn messenger use

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One way to tell what ports are used by an application is by the Netstat command. This is a somewhat tedious method because first you run the netstat -an -t TCP command and then write down all the active ports shown. Then you run a program then run netstat again. You compare the two and this will show you what ports [and usually there is more than one] a program uses. Somewhere there is a list [I'll have to look at my note achive of what sites carry it] of all ports [both well known and "other" {all 65,000 of em}] and what "default" services use for a port.

I do not know the ports for the MSN web cam and voice but for FTP it is ports 6891-6900.

Rgds..

Hi guys

You might find the following sources of use.

1)http://www.sysinternals.com

Some useful utilities (some free). I sometimes use tcpview.exe instead of netstat to see what programmes are using what port.

2) http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/ports00000.htm

A list of ports and their uses,

Hope this helps.

Mike
(Xboss)

Hi guys

You might find the following sources of use.

1)http://www.sysinternals.com

Some useful utilities (some free). I sometimes use tcpview.exe instead of netstat to see what programmes are using what port.

2) http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/ports00000.htm

A list of ports and their uses,

Hope this helps.

Mike
(Xboss)

now that is a nifty chart XBoss...Well done!......

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table.html

http://messenger.msn.com/support/firewall.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q278887

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