ASA Database Administration Guide
Client/Server Communications
SPX is a protocol from Novell. Adaptive Server Anywhere for NetWare, Windows NT/2000/XP, and Windows 95/98/Me can all employ the SPX protocol. This section provides some tips for using SPX under different operating systems.
SPX is not supported on 64-bit operating systems.
Some machines can use the NetWare bindery. These machines are NetWare servers or Windows NT/2000/XP or Windows 95/98/Me machines where the Client Service for NetWare is installed. A client application on one of these machines does not need to use broadcasts to connect to the server if the server to which it is connecting is also using the bindery.
Applications running on machines not using the bindery must connect using one of the following:
An explicit address You can specify an explicit address using the HOST (IP) communication parameter.
For more information, see the Host communication parameter [IP].
Broadcast If a server is not found in the bindery, the client will attempt to find it using a broadcast. This can be disabled with by setting the DoBroadcast (DOBROAD) communication parameter to NONE (client-side) or NO (server-side).
For more information, see the DoBroadcast communication parameter [DOBROAD].