June 29, 2017 at 11:29 am
I've got an FTP task that goes out to a .com FTP site and grabs a file. The FTP site uses port 21, but what port is the FTP Task actually leaving on? Is it port 80 because I'm going to a website? Or is it port 21 because it's an FTP task?
June 29, 2017 at 1:07 pm
If you're asking what port you're connecting from, the answer is that your computer picks a random port to make the connection to the remote FTP server. When your computer goes to talk to the FTP site, it tells the remote site what port it is talking on so they can communicate.
If you go into the windows resource monitor and look at the network tab, you can see what your local and remote ports are.
June 30, 2017 at 5:18 am
stevenb 14609 - Thursday, June 29, 2017 1:07 PMIf you're asking what port you're connecting from, the answer is that your computer picks a random port to make the connection to the remote FTP server. When your computer goes to talk to the FTP site, it tells the remote site what port it is talking on so they can communicate.
If you go into the windows resource monitor and look at the network tab, you can see what your local and remote ports are.
So if a port is unavailable, it'll just pick another random port? Or will it fail?
Or is your last statement saying it'll pick the ports available in the network tab of the resource monitor?
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