From: Brant I. Stevens (branto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 14:43:34 GMT-3
I agree completely... multicast on all your routers for the sake of SLP is
most definitely NOT a good idea... Another possibility is to create a SLP
scope object that you partition in the tree, and replicate that SLP
partition to all your sites...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris H" <chrish@bjen.com>
To: "Chuck Church" <cchurch@MAGNACOM.com>; "'Muhammed Omar'"
<muhammed_omar@hotmail.com>; "'Ccielab@Groupstudy. Com'"
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:35 PM
Subject: RE: SLP on Novell Netware
> SLP will really help browsing NetWare services across WAN. However, you
> really DO NOT want to turn on multicast. Instead, you should configure at
> least two SLP DA servers depending on size of your WAN and partitions.
> Normally you would want to configure these two DA's in the root. All the
> other NetWare 5.x servers should have slp.cfg with these two DA's IP
address
> in it. You should also load-balance it by reversing the order of these two
> servers in the SLP.CFG. Therefore, some servers will use one as the
primary
> DA and some will use the other one as the primary DA. I have done approx.
10
> of this type of configuration. The smallest one has ~1500 users with 5 WAN
> sites. The largest has ~45000 NDS objects with 61 WAN sites. You
definitely
> do NOT want to turn on multicast on your WAN routers. There are a lot of
> TIDs on Novell's support site. You will be able to find them by searching
> for SLP in the NW 5 or 5.1 session.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Chuck Church
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:34 AM
> To: 'Muhammed Omar'; 'Ccielab@Groupstudy. Com'
> Subject: RE: SLP on Novell Netware
>
>
> Muhammed,
>
> Actually, this is kind of multicast related, so I included the
> group. Enable PIM on all the router interfaces. Take your pick of sparse
> or dense. I'd prefer sparse. I'm pretty sure NW 5.1 will do IGMP
> registration. SLP is pretty efficient, so the multicast traffic shouldn't
> really kill your network. The default client install should use SLP, I
> believe.
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Muhammed Omar
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:35 AM
> To: Ccielab@Groupstudy. Com
> Subject: OT: SLP on Novell Netware
>
>
> Sorry for off topic!
>
> For Novell Gurus!
>
> Need some help with setting up Novell NetWare 5.1 with SLP. Need to be
setup
> between head office server and the 3 branch office servers to pass server
> details between sites and allow logins at remote sites. SLP needs to be
> setup
> on laptops so that connectivity is made to the Novell network via the
> currently installed VPN client software and firewall Watchguard 11 Plus.
> Will
> SLP be the best solution for this or is there anything else/better to that
> can
> be used?
>
> Please respond directly to me (& no the the group -since off topic)
>
> Many thanks.
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