[ntp:questions] Multicast question
Frank Kardel
kardel at ntp.org
Sat Mar 1 10:18:43 UTC 2008
Danny Mayer wrote:
> John Vossler wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have a new system running Solaris 10 set up as an NTP server. IT is
>> synchronizing correctly but I cannot get it to multicast on any
>> interface except the systems primary Ethernet interface, bge0. I need
>> it to multicast on interfaces bge1-bge3 and ce0 - ce7.
>>
>> Client systems reside on the network segments on these other interfaces.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions on getting the server to multicast on these
>> other interfaces?
>>
>> John
>
> Are you talking about outgoing packets to a multicast address? I think
> that there may be some bugs in that area since the addresses are limited
> and choosing an outgoing address becomes an issue and it will only send
> it out on one address. I'm not sure if it's possible to set up a server
> (at least not easily) to send via different interfaces.
It is. But on a multihomed server the server must have multicast routing
functionality. Either this is already provided in the kernel or you
need to run an mcast-routing daemon like mrouted, zebra or others.
The ntpd setup is not different on multihomed hosts. Just the multicast
routing must be working.
>
> To do this correctly you need to be able to set up a different multicast
> address to use and associate it with a particular server address for
> each interface.
NO - see above.
> The only way that I can think of to accomplish this is
> to be able to specify a specific binding address in the config file. We
> would have to add that as an optional parameter to the broadcast directive.
>
not needed.
> Danny
Frank
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