Port 6634MPLS Performance Measurement (out-of-band response)

UDP port 6634 is assigned for out-of-band responses to MPLS performance measurements.

transport
udp

single transport

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 5,745 · top 17%

also known as mpls-pm

Technical Details

what runs on :6634

MPLS Performance Measurement (out-of-band response) is registered on port :6634 over udp to Cisco Systems 2, assigned February 2014. We don't have a technical write-up for it beyond the IANA registry entry.

In nmap's internet-wide scan data this port is never observed open, so if it's open on your network it's more likely a custom or misconfigured service than the registered one.

find what's listening on :6634

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -ulpn 'sport = :6634'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :6634

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :6634
another host
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:6634 <host>

run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.

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Security Information

exposure of :6634

risk score

1/ 10safe

routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.

network services averages 2.6 across 1,734 ports — this one sits 1.6 below.

in transit

cleartext

credentials and payloads are readable by anyone on path

assignment

official

registered with iana for this service — scanners fingerprint it by number

reachable over

udp

udp is connectionless — source addresses are trivially spoofed and it is a reflection favourite

security overview

no security notes recorded for :6634 yet

known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.

the 8 most looked-up other ports in network services — 1,734 ports carry that label.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • caution100%

0 of 8 encrypted