Appendix D Common Services

Table 238 Commonly Used Services

NAME

PROTOCOL

PORT(S)

DESCRIPTION

 

 

 

 

AH

User-Defined

51

The IPSEC AH (Authentication Header)

(IPSEC_TUNNEL)

 

 

tunneling protocol uses this service.

AIM/New-ICQ

TCP

5190

AOL’s Internet Messenger service. It is also

 

 

 

used as a listening port by ICQ.

AUTH

TCP

113

Authentication protocol used by some

 

 

 

servers.

BGP

TCP

179

Border Gateway Protocol.

 

 

 

 

BOOTP_CLIENT

UDP

68

DHCP Client.

 

 

 

 

BOOTP_SERVER

UDP

67

DHCP Server.

 

 

 

 

CU-SEEME

TCP

7648

A popular videoconferencing solution from

 

UDP

24032

White Pines Software.

 

 

 

 

DNS

TCP/UDP

53

Domain Name Server, a service that

 

 

 

matches web names (e.g. www.zyxel.com)

 

 

 

to IP numbers.

ESP

User-Defined

50

The IPSEC ESP (Encapsulation Security

(IPSEC_TUNNEL)

 

 

Protocol) tunneling protocol uses this

 

 

 

service.

FINGER

TCP

79

Finger is a UNIX or Internet related

 

 

 

command that can be used to find out if a

 

 

 

user is logged on.

FTP

TCP

20

File Transfer Program, a program to enable

 

TCP

21

fast transfer of files, including large files that

 

 

 

may not be possible by e-mail.

H.323

TCP

1720

NetMeeting uses this protocol.

 

 

 

 

HTTP

TCP

80

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - a client/

 

 

 

server protocol for the world wide web.

HTTPS

TCP

443

HTTPS is a secured http session often used

 

 

 

in e-commerce.

ICMP

User-Defined

1

Internet Control Message Protocol is often

 

 

 

used for diagnostic or routing purposes.

ICQ

UDP

4000

This is a popular Internet chat program.

 

 

 

 

IGMP (MULTICAST)

User-Defined

2

Internet Group Multicast Protocol is used

 

 

 

when sending packets to a specific group of

 

 

 

hosts.

IKE

UDP

500

The Internet Key Exchange algorithm is

 

 

 

used for key distribution and management.

IRC

TCP/UDP

6667

This is another popular Internet chat

 

 

 

program.

MSN Messenger

TCP

1863

Microsoft Networks’ messenger service

 

 

 

uses this protocol.

NEW-ICQ

TCP

5190

An Internet chat program.

 

 

 

 

NEWS

TCP

144

A protocol for news groups.

 

 

 

 

NFS

UDP

2049

Network File System - NFS is a client/

 

 

 

server distributed file service that provides

 

 

 

transparent file sharing for network

 

 

 

environments.

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