[ntp:questions] configurations issue for broadcastclient in Linux machine

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.isc.org
Mon May 14 13:27:58 UTC 2007


On 2007-05-14, Ravikiran REDDY -X ravikred - HCL at Cisco wrote:

> Linux machine when configured as broadcast client is not able to create
> associations for the pkts received from the server [cisco router]
> Am I missing anything here or should I need to have any additional
> configuration in the ntp.conf file ? 

<snip>

> --------ntp.conf file -----
> broadcastclient
> driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
> ----------------------------

Broadcast mode requires NTP Authentication. You must either (a)
configure NTP Authentication (using symmetric keys or Autokey) or (b)
disable authentication in this ntpd.

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Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.isc.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/




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