What is SLPTCP 1

[fbizzell]

What is the function of the SLPTCP.NLM and would it normally require over half of the available memory on a server with 2 gig of memory?

 

[LawnBoy]

Service Location Protocol, a method of finding servers based on the services they provide.

No, it should not be eating 1 gig of ram.

 

[fbizzell]

I assume then we need to have it loaded. Is there anyway to force it to require less memory?

 

[LawnBoy]

Life gets messy without it... I don't know of any way to restrict it's memory consumption. Have you restarted the service and does it immediately consume the same amount of ram?

 

[fbizzell]

The SLP.CFG file contains nothing but commented out lines. Could it be that we have never setup and configured the SLP:

Here is the cfg file contents:

; This is a sample of the slp configuration file.
; Two types of entries can be made: 1) DA entries, 2) SA Register Filters.
;
; The DA entry allows static configuration of a known DA. This would be used
; when the DA was out of multicast range and DHCP was not being used to
; configure the DA.
; The static DA configuration format is as follows 'DA <addr type>, <addr>'.
; The first word must be "DA". The addr type is the address type. Currently, only
; IPV4 has been defined. IPV6 will be defined in the future. The addr is
; the address specified.
;
; The following is an example of a static DA.
; DA IPV4, 130.1.1.1
;
; The SA Register Filter would be used when the administrator wanted all services
; of a specific service type being mapped to a single scope. For example,
; the administrator wanted all "lpr" printers being registered to scope "printer".
; The format is as follows: 'REGISTER TYPE "<type name>" to SCOPE "<scope name>"'.
; The parser will look for REGISTER, TYPE, and SCOPE as keywords followed by quote on
; a single line. Example:
;
; REGISTER TYPE "lpr" to SCOPE "eng"
;
; The last line must contain a line feed and char return. A semi-colon specifies a
; comment.

 

[LawnBoy]

IIRC, on NW5.x if you didn't configure slp it would default to an "unscoped scope" (if you can get your head around that terminology) and would operate fairly well.

Running slp in default still should not be consuming that much memory. It might be worthwhile to browse through the TID's on setting up slp just to test your config and check for glaring errors.

Sorry I'm not much help, slp has always done exactly what I expected. Maybe Marv or Terry will jump in here.

Are you running IPX, or are you pure IP?

 

[terry712]

you should comment out the line for the da

it should point to at least one or two or three for redundancy pending on size of network

unless it's running the slpda

i prefer to also set the discovery to 4 instead of 15 so it reads this file