fa2k Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 The LAN discovery sends a few packets every second. I think this is too much, and it may increase power use of all connected devices (only a problem for battery powered ones). The problem compounds when there are many devices. There also seems to be quite a bit of traffic between connected devices. Is there a way to decrease the rate of LAN discovery? If this is not expected behaviour, maybe this packet capture could help (only about 10 seconds) http://www.fa2k.net/misc/packets.pcap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Is there a way to decrease the rate of LAN discovery?Not at present, but I suspect this will probably be implemented as an advanced setting as some point.In the meantime, if your know the IPs of all your local devices, you could use the "pre-defined hosts" options, and disable "Search LAN", and you should see significantly less network traffic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fa2k Posted July 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Cool. At least two of the computers have fixed addresses so I can disable Search LAN on the computers. I can't find Search LAN or specify devices on my Android phone, so I'm leaving LPD on on one computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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