On 2012-11-20 16:15, Trent W. Buck wrote: > DanyJ <[email protected]> writes: > > > I have run tshark and downloaded the capture file. I am reading the > > capture file using wireshark. I see a lot of the following showing: > > > > 18 1.047790 111.67.22.211 111.67.23.255 DB-LSP-DISC 153 Dropbox LAN sync > > Discovery Protocol > > > > What are these? There is not Dropbox on the server. Any one can help > > please? > > From context, I'm guessing that dropbox spams the LAN to find other > dropbox users. Thus, someone else on your LAN is running dropbox. > > IIRC dropbox showed up in my squid logs attempting to do crazy made-up > HTTP verbs, too. I get the impression they're pretty cowboy.
I don't know exactly how it works, but yes, somehow, Dropbox on individual desktops tries to communicate with other dropbox instances on the LAN so that if I have Dropbox on my laptop and my desktop, those two machines can sync directly with each other rather than go out to the internet and back in. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia
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