How SCO Gateway for NetWare and IPX/SPX daemons interact

The IPX daemon, sapd, maintains an internal list of all NetWare services available on the network. If, at the time that the IPX/SPX sapd daemon starts, the configuration file, /etc/ipx.d/NPSConfig, contains the line:

sap_dump_on = active

sapd writes information (names and IPX/SPX addresses) about NetWare file servers to a file accessible by the SCO Gateway for NetWare daemon, nregd. The nregd daemon obtains the NetWare service information, if available, and provides it to the rest of the SCO Gateway for NetWare system.

When SCO Gateway for NetWare is installed, the sap_dump_on variable is set to active. The nregd daemon logs an error with syslog(SLIB) if the sap_dump_on variable is not set to active when it starts, since SCO Gateway for NetWare cannot function without the NetWare server data.