How can I turn off SLP Multicasts?

  • 3656950
  • 13-Jan-2007
  • 16-Mar-2012

Environment

Novell NetWare 5.0

Situation

SLP multicast traffic bringing up a dialup ISDN connection.
How can I turn off SLP Multicasts?
How can I minimize SLP traffic on the wire?

Resolution

To turn off Service Location Protocol (SLP) add a Directory Agent (DA) to the slp.cfg . Set SLP DA discovery options =4. This will affect all interfaces in the server. You cannot have different settings for different interfaces in the same server. See the March 1999 AppNotes for more information about SLP.

Additional Information

Set SLP DA heart beat = 10800 (seconds) is the default for Directory Agent (DA) synchronization. Service Agent (SA) servers will communicate with the DA every hour by default.

Formerly known as TID# 10012063