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For a typical NT Novell 4.7 client workstation, how many SLP registrations will be performed (startup, shutdown, and on-going)?

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For a typical NT Novell 4.7 client workstation, how many SLP registrations will be performed (startup, shutdown, and on-going)?

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A1: A typical 95/98/NT client will not perform any SLP Service registrations. SLP Registrations are performed by the Server Agent module for services such as bindery.novell (NDS Login server) or ndap.novell (NDS Replica server). A typical 95/98/NT Client will not have any services to advertise, though the Novell Client for Windows 95/98 and NT do ship with a fully functional SA. This is why each client will issue an IGMP packet to notify any routers that they are a member of the 224.0.1.22 multicast group. The clients are ensuring that they will be able to receive any SA SLP Service multicasts (assuming multicast is enabled across the router) in the event they have the requested service. If for some reason the client was registering SLP Services, they would default to re-registering them every 3 hours (SLP Service Default Lifetime), whereas a NW5 server defaults to re-registering them every hour.