What would be a good way to describe ports? I learned about it using this analogy, but it seems pretty inadequate to me:
IP addresses are like street addresses of apartment buildings, and ports are like the apartments therein.
IP addresses are not segmented as a street address is, and second, apartments don't seem at all analogous to ports in terms of behavior.
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