Service Location Protocol Administration Guide

Configuration Properties

The list of properties are structured as key-value pairs in the file. The key-value pairs consist of the SLP property names and their settings, in this format:


<property name>=<value>

The key for each property is the property name. The value sets the numeric (distance or time), true/false state, or string value parameters on the property. Property values consist of one of the following data types:

SLP behavior is defined by some property or combination of property settings in the slp.conf file. For instance, from within the slp.conf file, you can configure slpd to operate as a DA, or leave it in its default configuration as an SA server.

If you set the net.slp.isDA property to True, slpd performs the characteristic activities of a DA.

All of the base SLP properties are named in the following format:


net.slp.<keyword>