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How does Dropbox LAN Sync work?

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Mar 15, 202618986 views
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I have installed Dropbox on 2 Ubuntu machines and enabled LAN sync. I was curious how does one Dropbox instance detect another.

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It looks like a UDP broadcast packet is sent over the LAN. I found these links to support: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=12180 "we've experimented with various service discovery protocols, both standardized and our own. right now we're usin…

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