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Name: wes
Date: November 15, 2000 at 05:33:09 Pacific
Subject: SAP Filtering
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I have a 4.11 server. When you type "Display servers" at the console it shows a lot of workstations. An engineer that was here helping us with another matter told me that it was SAP being transmitted from these workstations because the Microsoft Client was still in network properties although Novel client 32 is being used. I noticed that that was not true. Some of the machines still had the MS client but most did not and were still showing up. The engineer originally told me that all this SAP traffic was eating up bandwidth. What do I do about it? I was reading something about SAP filtering. Is this what I should do???


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Response Number 1
Name: Jensen
Date: November 17, 2000 at 13:18:29 Pacific
Subject: SAP Filtering
Reply: (edit)

It isn't a good solution to filter SAP.
SAP provides many needed Services between Server - Server and Server - Client.

If your Server is also router between two or more Network-Segments you can use Inetcfg to
configure the Routing and set some filters on RIP and SAP. But remember: If you set a filter on SAP are much services only aviable in one and the same Networksegment (Timesync etc).

If you have massive performance-problems send me an Email with all of your Network Parameters( Topologie, Server Hardware, LANdriver statistics, Server Informations (found in NetWare Monitor), your currend autoexec.ncf and startup.ncf . . .). I try to help you.

If the performance is OK then NEVER TOUCH A RUNNING SYSTEM.



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Response Number 2
Name: marsd
Date: November 19, 2000 at 14:35:41 Pacific
Subject: SAP Filtering
Reply: (edit)

SAP propagation from workstations means that
you have the client configured to generate available service traffic. I have two subnets
of client 32 computers and only the ones act-
ually configured with NDPS are generating SAP traffic detectable from the server con.
Is there some reason that these machines need NDPS or whatever services you installed?
SAP filtering could be used to block communication between your servers and the
offending workstations but that will not solve the problem of SAP propagation.


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