Cabletron Systems HSIM-W6 manual Enabling the IPX SAP Protocol on a Port

Chapter 7: General Configuration Using Local Management

Enabling the IPX SAP Protocol on a Port

IPX Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) is used by IPX to exchange information about Novell service providing nodes, such as file servers and print servers that are available. IPX SAP builds and maintains a database, the Service Advertising Table, containing the addresses and routes to specific service providing nodes, and advertises this information over the network.

Each router running IPX SAP gathers this LAN based information from the locally connected network segments and adds it to its Service Advertising Table. Each table contains the Novell Network Number and type of services available on all Novell servers known to the IPX SAP. IPX routing services uses this information to provide internetworked NetWare clients with access to these services.

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