01-07-2009 09:06 AM - edited 03-06-2019 03:18 AM
Hi all, I know with broadcasts you have arp etc, can you have TCP, and UDP broadcasts, wha do they look like on a sniffer ?
01-07-2009 12:12 PM
You can see UDP broadcast with protocols such as DHCP. For both tcp and udp you should see an entry in you sniffer to x.x.x.255 or 255.255.255.255
01-07-2009 03:52 PM
hi there, can you give me another example of this? what kind of apps would have a tcp/udp broadcast?
01-07-2009 09:54 PM
Hello Carl,
UDP broadcasts are sent by DNS, NETBIOS, Spanning-Tree,DHCP...again i do not think that TCP sends a Broadcast
01-07-2009 09:31 PM
Hello Carl,
I my opinion we do have UDP Broadcasts but TCP dosen't Broadcast by itself. TCP is a connection oriented protocol and would always try to Synchronise the connection (the SYN and ACK method)...but broadcasts can happen with TCP but TCP itself dosent initiate the broadcast. A device eg a switch with no matching destination MAC in the MAC-Address-Table can broadcast the TCP Packet or a hub can broadcast it..and if the destination ip address of the a Packet (TCP) is 255.255.255.255 then it may be broadcasted by a router or a multilayer switch and that too can be restricted by "no ip directed-broadcast" command...I would like some expert to trow some more info...
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