Ports opened by ADO open statement

I have a web app that is using ado (not ado.net) to move data to and from an SQL db on a web server. If I run netstat -an on the server prior to a single open statement I notice about 4 ports that are opened. After a executing the open statement I notice that there are amlost 4000 ports opened.

My questions are:

Why do so many ports open with a single adodb connection command.?

How does this impact processing n the sql server?

Thanks

[507 byte] By [Clifflane] at [2007-12-18]