Chapter 46. NetWare Link-Services Protocol

Objectives

  • Describe the Network Link-Service Protocol.

  • Describe routing with NLSP.

  • Describe the data packet used by NLSP.

Background

The NetWare Link-Services Protocol (NLSP) is a link-state routing protocol from Novell designed to overcome some of the limitations associated with the IPX Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and its companion protocol, the Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP). NLSP is based on the OSI Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol and was designed to replace RIP and SAP, Novell's original routing protocols that were designed when internetworks were local and relatively small. As such, RIP and SAP are not well suited for today's large, global internetworks. This chapter ...

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