![]() ![]() The dropnbox process running on your computer sends a UDP broadcast packet in the local network every 30 seconds. After an hour or so I believe that the following steps are involved in Dropbox’s LAN syncing - 1. I then decided to dig a little more on wire shark and with some google search came to the conclusion that it was a dropbox feature to sync data changes within the local network.Įarlier today(yes 1 year later) I decided to spend some more time looking at the traces and try to figure out the details of the LAN sync protocol. I had not updated/edited any files recently, so was surprised to see it. One that got my particular attention was a packet that was related to the popular service dropbox. I closed all my browser windows and other chat/im services, and still noticed a lot of chatter on the network. ![]() A year ago, I fired up wire shark on my home network to check out the packet flow of the DHCP process. ![]()
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