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Re:Google Networking Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa by ceautery on Monday September 10, 2012 @11:04AM (#4500152)
The Wireshark capture showing BOOTP was interesting. I don't live in the networking world anymore, but I thought BOOTP had gone the way of Gopher by now.
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Re:Google Networking Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa by noselasd on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:40PM (#4500960)
That's just a peculiarity of wireshark, it displays both DHCP and BOOTP as BOOTP in the oneline view. The packets are likely DHCP
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Re:Google Networking Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa by jof on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:22PM (#4500882)
BOOTP and DHCP use the same ports and general packet structure, so Wireshark has the dissectors grouped.

I was humored by that Wireshark screenshot. ARPs and DHCP/BOOTP requests from a freshly-booted device are not al that unusual.

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