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Port 8 UDP Broadcasts from Windows XP’s User State Migration Tool

28-Dec-08

Microsoft bundles the User State Migration Tool (USMT) with Windows to facilitate moving a user’s settings from one machine to another. When the USMT is enabled, it generates a notable amount of broadcast traffic – two to three packets per second – on UDP port 8 from the new system to 255.255.255.255, port 8:
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