[ih] Why FTP uses two ports?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Jun 21 07:20:42 PDT 2012


I have this bit vaguely set that NCP sockets were unidirectional, whereas TCP
ports are bidirectional. Was that a factor at all (if my memory of how things
worked is even true :-)?

       Noel



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