I know what SLP is, who uses it and is it important.
I am currenty in a very inquizitive frame of mind because I am looking for a job and keep on getting odd test questions by employers.
Who uses SLP and what is it's importants? I know it is a Service locater. Is it for linux, windows, mac, PDA ? Is this widely in use ? What is the microsoft spin on it and are they going in after the fact and claiming they invented this too ?
A good website on this is:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:7yjMZXyNw2kJ:www.bettstetter.com/publications/jasund-2001-eunice-slpbrowser.pdf+%22slp+browser%22++microsoft&hl=en
I did a web search and was confused.
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This was a 125 point question but the answer was just so great I had to bring it up to 400 points. This has the "smell" of being inspired by IPV6 although I do not know that. IPv6 has some of this ability as I understand.
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A big drawback of TCP/IP against IPX/SPX was that a host (member workstation) in TCP/IP is almost "lost" in the net. It has to be configured well or it doesn't even know where to get a simple name resoultion service save communicating with other hosts.
IPX/SPX had a better approach to that: it was self-configuring (do you remember to adjust your network address with IPX/SPX? No? Me Neither.) and even found the services available in a network (better: on different hosts in that network) automatically by repeated broadcasts of "service anouncements".
Much work had been done to reduce the drawbacks of TCP/IP in that point (e.g. DHCP servers, dynamic updates DNS-servers, etc.)
I've heard about SLP recently in association with VoIP. I didn't get much into that matter, but it would be a cool feature for a telephone to be plugged into a network and gets every information it needs from the net to work properly.
You can get an in depth description from the inventors (IETF) http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/svrloc-charter.html