端口表示IP网络协议的TCP和UDP传输中的通信端点。套接字是通信端点的软件抽象，通常用于这些协议的实现(套接字API)。另一种实现是XTI/TLI API。

参见:

史蒂文斯，W. R. 1998, UNIX网络编程:网络api:套接字和XTI;第一卷，普伦蒂斯大厅。 Stevens, W. R.， 1994, TCP/IP图解，第1卷:协议，Addison-Wesley。

端口是最简单的部分，它只是套接字的唯一标识符。套接字是进程可以用来建立连接和相互通信的东西。高个子杰夫有一个很好的电话比喻，但并不完美，所以我决定修正它:

IP和端口~电话号码 插座~电话设备 连接~电话 建立连接~拨打号码 流程，远程应用程序~人员 留言~语音

套接字是软件中的一种结构。它差不多是一个文件;它有读和写这样的操作。它不是一个物理的东西;它是你的软件引用物理事物的一种方式。

端口是一个类似设备的东西。每台主机都有一个或多个网络(这些是物理网络);主机在每个网络上都有一个地址。每个地址可以有数千个端口。

只有一个套接字可能在某个地址上使用某个端口。套接字分配端口类似于为文件系统I/O分配设备。一旦分配了端口，就没有其他套接字可以连接到该端口。当套接字被关闭时，端口将被释放。

看一下TCP/IP术语。

这个问题已经有了理论上的答案。我想举一个实际的例子来解释这个问题，让大家对Socket和Port有一个更清晰的理解。

我在这里找到的

This example will walk you thru the process of connecting to a website, such as Wiley. You would open your web browser (like Mozilla Firefox) and type www.wiley.com into the address bar. Your web browser uses a Domain Name System (DNS) server to look up the name www.wiley.com to identify its IP address is. For this example, the address is 192.0.2.100. Firefox makes a connection to the 192.0.2.100 address and to the port where the application layer web server is operating. Firefox knows what port to expect because it is a well-known port . The well-known port for a web server is TCP port 80. The destination socket that Firefox attempts to connect is written as socket:port, or in this example, 192.0.2.100:80. This is the server side of the connect, but the server needs to know where to send the web page you want to view in Mozilla Firefox, so you have a socket for the client side of the connection also. The client side connection is made up of your IP address, such as 192.168.1.25, and a randomly chosen dynamic port number. The socket associated with Firefox looks like 192.168.1.25:49175. Because web servers operate on TCP port 80, both of these sockets are TCP sockets, whereas if you were connecting to a server operating on a UDP port, both the server and client sockets would be UDP sockets.

这些是基本的网络概念，所以我将以一种简单而全面的方式详细解释它们。

插座就像电话(即端到端通信设备) IP就像你的电话号码(即你的插座地址) 端口就像您想要与之交谈的人(即您想从该地址订购的服务) 插座可以是客户端也可以是服务器端(例如，在公司中，客户支持的电话是服务器，但你家里的电话主要是客户端)

因此，网络中的套接字是绑定到一对(ip，端口)=(地址，服务)的虚拟通信设备。

注意:

A machine, a computer, a host, a mobile, or a PC can have multiple addresses , multiple open ports, and thus multiple sockets. Like in an office you can have multiple telephones with multiple telephone numbers and multiple people to talk to. Existence of an open/active port necessitate that you must have a socket bound to it, because it is the socket that makes the port accessible. However, you may have unused ports for the time being. Also note, in a server socket you can bind it to (a port, a specific address of a machine) or to (a port, all addresses of a machine) as in the telephone you may connect many telephone lines (telephone numbers) to a telephone or one specific telephone line to a telephone and still you can reach a person through all these telephone lines or through a specific telephone line. You can not associate (bind) a socket with two ports as in the telephone usually you can not always have two people using the same telephone at the same time . Advanced: on the same machine you cannot have two sockets with same type (client, or server) and same port and ip. However, if you are a client you can open two connections, with two sockets, to a server because the local port in each of these client's sockets is different)

希望它能消除你的疑虑

港口定义

文顿·g·瑟夫和罗伯特·e·卡恩(1974年5月)。分组网络互通协议。IEEE通讯汇刊，第22卷，第5号。IEEE。

端口是“一对(实体)在一段时间内交换一条或多条消息”的单元。

“……我们可以看到一个端口产生的消息序列，就好像它嵌入在一个无限长的字节流中……我们强调，与给定数据包相关联的序列号仅对通信的端口对是唯一的…对到达的数据包进行检查，以确定它们要发送到哪个端口。目标进程应该指定它愿意侦听特定端口或‘任何’端口。”

一个“端口只是一个的指示器……双工…消息流……[在一个或多个]信息流中…与流程相关联。”

信息科学研究所:南加州大学(1981年9月)。RFC 793:传输控制协议:DARPA互联网程序协议规范。

端口是一个或多个实体的一个实体，进程通过一个或多个通信流与一个或多个其他进程通信。

由于一个进程可能需要区分它自己和另一个进程(或多个进程)之间的几个通信流，我们设想每个进程都可能有若干端口，通过这些端口与其他进程通信。

“这样做的目的是，只允许在具有完全相同的安全性和隔间值的端口之间进行连接，并且在两个端口要求的优先级中具有更高的优先级。” 注意，此检查放在顺序检查之后，以防止来自这些具有不同安全性或优先级的端口之间的旧连接的段导致当前连接中断。

端口是一个地址，它指定进程的哪个逻辑输入或输出通道与[数据流]相关联。 为了允许单个主机内的多个进程同时使用TCP通信设施，TCP在每台主机内提供了一组地址或端口。

套接字中指定进程的哪个逻辑输入或输出通道与数据相关联的部分。

Socket的定义

甲骨文(2020)。类套接字。Java平台，标准版7 API规范。

套接字是两台机器之间通信的端点。

信息科学研究所:南加州大学(1981年9月)。RFC 793:传输控制协议:DARPA互联网程序协议规范。

A socket is a string consisting of an Internet address [i.e., the first eight-bit number (e.g., 123) of a network address (e.g., 123.45.78.0), a period, the second eight-bit number (e.g., 45) of the network address, a period, the third eight-bit number (e.g., 78) of the network address, a period, and a host address (e.g., 90)], a colon, and a TCP port (e.g., 1234). A socket is a unit of “A pair of [entities that] uniquely identify [a] connection[, and that] may be simultaneously used in multiple connections.”

"To allow for many processes within a single Host to use TCP communication facilities simultaneously, the TCP provides a set of addresses or ports within each host. Concatenated with the network and host addresses from the internet communication layer, this forms a socket. A pair of sockets uniquely identifies each connection. That is, a socket may be simultaneously used in multiple connections." “To provide for unique addresses within each TCP, we concatenate an internet address identifying the TCP with a port identifier to create a socket which will be unique throughout all networks connected together.”

上面描述的可靠性和流量控制机制要求tcp初始化和维护每个数据流的特定状态信息。这些信息(包括套接字、序列号和窗口大小)的组合称为连接。每个连接都由一对识别其两端的套接字唯一指定。”