From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 28 19:00:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D3816A419 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conover@rahul.net) Received: from pink.rahul.net (pink.rahul.net [192.160.13.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AA213C468 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conover@rahul.net) Received: from green.rahul.net (green.rahul.net [192.160.13.49]) by pink.rahul.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4FF2FE5A for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by green.rahul.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 41F25BE8D1 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6208 invoked by uid 4199); 28 Jul 2007 18:36:21 -0000 Message-ID: <20070728183621.6207.qmail@rahul.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:36:21 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 6.99 under Emacs 20.7.2 From: conover@rahul.net (John Conover) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: bootps/67 requests from browser on certain sites? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Conover List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:00:03 -0000 About a week ago, when using firefox or seamonkey, and visiting, http://techweb.com/, http://www.zdnet.com/, or, http://www.informationweek.com/, a bootps/67 broadcast request is issued to 255.255.255.255 from the browser. It happens with no other sites. All IPs on the LAN are static, and there is no DHCP. Anyone know what causes the bootps calls, or what they are for? Thanks, John -- John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/