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Ephemeral Port

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Also called a transient port or a temporary port. Usually is on the client side. It is set up when a client application wants to connect to a server and is destroyed when the client application terminates. It has a number chosen at random that is greater than 1023.

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Entity Type

Network95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

plural
Ephemeral Ports
possessive
Ephemeral Port's
pluralpossessive
Ephemeral Ports'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
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Also called a transient port or a temporary port. Usually is on the client side. It is set up when a client application wants to connect to a server and is destroyed when the client application terminates. It has a number chosen at random that is greater than 1023.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Also called a transient port or a temporary port. Usually is on the client side. It is set up when a client application wants to connect to a server and is destroyed when the client application terminates. It has a number chosen at random that is greater than 1023.
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