SAP
Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP) is a Novell proprietary protocol that advertises NetWare services on an IPX network. A service is a resource that IPX clients may want to use, such as a file service or print service. All services have a service type, which is denoted by a hexadecimal number. Some service types are defined by Novell, while others are proprietary to vendors that make services for NetWare. For example, SAP type 4 is the standard service type for NetWare file service, and SAP type 7 is the standard service type for printers.
By default, NetWare servers broadcast SAP packets every 60 seconds to advertise known services. Each NetWare server learns of SAP services in much the same way that it learns dynamic routing protocol ...
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