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   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   klem s  wrote:   
      
   > TCP/IP uses port numbers to identify applications. And since it is the   
   > socket pair that uniquely identifies each TCP connection on the   
   > internet, I assume that server application listening on specific port   
   > can have at any given time several TCP connections active on the same   
   > server socket, as long as each of the client sockets is unique?   
      
   For TCP, it is the quad source address, source port, destination   
   address, destination port that identifies the connection.   
      
   The rules are different for UDP.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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