Port 6705ForCES Medium-Priority Channel

SCTP channel for medium-priority ForCES messages between forwarding elements and control elements.

transport: sctp
in transit: cleartext
assignment: official
risk: 2/10
lookups: 0

also known as frc-mp, ForCES MP

Technical Details

what runs on :6705

SCTP port 6705 carries the ForCES Medium Priority (MP) channel: ForCES messages exchanged between a control element and a forwarding element. SCTP establishes the transport association; ForCES then carries its protocol messages over that association. This is a specialized control-plane protocol endpoint, not a general-purpose service, and it is useful only in a ForCES deployment.

Security Information

exposure of :6705

risk score

2/ 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 1,745 ports — this one sits 0.6 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

sctp

every listening transport is another surface to filter at the edge

security overview

ForCES carries control-plane communications that can expose forwarding-element state or affect forwarding configuration. The protocol is not encrypted by default, so keep the endpoint restricted to trusted CE–FE paths and do not expose it to the public internet. Its specialized and rarely observed use makes opportunistic exposure less likely, but does not make an reachable control-plane endpoint safe.

Record

iana registry entry

port: :6705
service: ForCES Medium-Priority Channel
transport: SCTP
encryption: cleartext
assignment: iana registered
risk: 2/10safe
category: Network Services
usage: This port is for the ForCES protocol, which lets a control element (CE) communicate with forwarding elements (FEs) in a ForCES network. Engineers are most likely to encounter it in specialized network equipment or test environments, not on ordinary servers.
lookups: 0rank 993
added: 2026-10-11
updated: 2026-10-11
references: IANA service name registry — port 6705
RFC 5811

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Port :6705ForCES Medium-Priority Channel

Technical Details

Security Information

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Port 6705ForCES Medium-Priority Channel