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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