Connecting to a Novell Network
479
Source:
00:60:08:9e:2e:44
LLC Length:
38
802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC) Header
Dest. SAP:
0xe0 NetWare
Source SAP:
0xe0 NetWare Individual LLC Sublayer
Management Function
Command:
0x03 Unnumbered Information
IPX - NetWare Protocol
Checksum:
0xffff
Length:
34
Transport Control:
Reserved:
%0000
Hop Count:
%0000
Packet Type:
0 Novell
Destination Network:
0x00000000
Destination Node:
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Ethernet Brdcast
Destination Socket:
0x0452 Service Advertising Protocol
Source Network:
0xf3df9b36
Source Node:
00:60:08:9e:2e:44
Source Socket:
0x4000 IPX Ephemeral
SAP - Service Advertising Protocol
Operation:
3 NetWare Nearest Service Query
Service Type:
4 File Server
Extra bytes (Padding):
......... 00 04 00 04 00 04 00 04 00
Frame Check Sequence: 0x00000000
Novell networking adheres to a client-server model in almost all cases. As
such, servers are strictly servers and clients are resources that use the ser-
vices provided by servers. This differs from AppleTalk and Microsoft network-
ing, where clients can be servers as well.
Note that the GNS request is a broadcast and is not forwarded by a router.
Although this might lead an administrator to believe that an IPX server needs to
be installed on each network segment, this is not the case. IPX places a GNS
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