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gwion
wild colonial boy

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bootp client - port 68

Bootstrap protocol client. Used by client machines to obtain dynamic IP addressing information from a DHCP server. DHCP ports are occasionally abused by trojan applications to circumvent firewalling. Best practice is to make DHCP permissions as tight as practical in a given situation.