What are SAP updates?

barryn13087

As the title says what are they and what does SAP mean an do?

Webmaster

I wrote:

Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) Used by network resources such as file and print servers to advertise the services they provide and at which IPX address they can be reached. This occurs every 60 seconds. SAP is mainly used in Netware networks before version 4. In Novell Netware version 4 and above network resources are typically located using the NDS.

Check out the Session layer section of the following TechNotes:
www.techexams.net/technotes/networkplus/netwareipx.shtml

knownasthatguy

Couldnt it also be Service Access Point that indicates what host application is being used, i cant remember.

Webmaster

Because the title of this thread says: "What are SAP updates?" it's most probably Novell's SAP. Which has always been a common topic for the CCNA exam, although less likely to appear on the current 'new' CCNA exams.

knownasthatguy

I went back and looked up what I couldnt remember. I remeber the LLC DSAP, SSAP which is very different than SAP. Whew, now that I got that cleared up.......LOL........