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Re: what is this in tcpdump?



On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 00:47, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > I get a lot of these in my tcpdump on my machine:
> >
> > 15:45:47.427003 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 129
> > 15:45:48.427004 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 167
> >
> > 192.168.1.31 is my broadcast address, and basement is me. They usually
> >           come in pairs like this, though sometimes split up by other
> >           traffic. Always, though, its one of length 129 and one of
> >           167
> >
> > A
> 
> Hi Andrew. It looks like these are just broadcasts from your print server. The 
> difference in packet size seems to indicate that you have 2 printers. I have 
> 2 broadcasts every 30 secs. One is 189bytes, and the other 190bytes. I only 
> have one printer. Printer1 on the Wireshark output attached should not be 
> there, and will have to look into that, and get rid of the duplicated entry.


hmmm... maybe my fax printer is shared too...

thanks

A

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