>a good analogy of a socket is that of a telephone
>once you connect 2 sockets together (place a call) you can pass data from
>one point to the other (have a conversation)
>
>the socket that waits for the connection is defined as the server, the
>socket that initiate the call is defined as client
>
>within a single address (IP) you can have several sockets listening on
>different extensions known as ports
>popular standard ports include -
>25 for SMTP (mail send), 110 - POP3 (mail read) , 80 - HTTP, 119, NNTP
>(news) , 6667- IRC etc.
>
>Arnon
>

Thanks Arnon! This *really* helped me understand what I'm looking at dealing with here with this suite of tools. =D) Rox