[ntp:questions] ntp.conf For Clients

Stewart Pelegan spelegan at csc.com
Tue Jun 21 13:51:11 UTC 2005


I've got a bunch of Sun workstations on a standalone network.  Two 
servers(srva, 10.20.30.40, and srvb, 10.20.30.41) are running ntp 4.2 in 
server mode and are connected to an outside time source and they're 
working just fine.  I'd like the remaining workstations(all on the same 
subnet) to point to these servers as their time sources.  What 
statement(s) do I need in the clients' ntp.conf file to do this and also 
be able to see the entries in the clients' ntp.log file showing that the 
clocks are in sync.

Right now, I've got the following in the clients' ntp.conf:

broadcastclient
multicastclient 224.0.1.1
enable auth monitor
logfile /opt/ntp/logs/ntp.log
driftfile /opt/ntp/logs/ntp.drift
statsdir /opt/ntp/logs/
statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable

and the servers have:

server 127.127.5.0 prefer
server 10.20.30.41
server 127.127.1.0
fudge 10.20.30.41 stratum 1
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 1
broadcast 224.0.1.1 ttl 6

enable auth monitor
logfile /opt/ntp/logs/ntp.log
driftfile /opt/ntp/logs/ntp.drift
statsdir /opt/ntp/logs/
statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable

What corrections do I need to make to the clients' and/or servers' 
ntp.conf file in order to get this to work.  Thanks.

Stewart Pelegan
Computer Sciences Corporation
301.921.3206
Fax: 301.921.0985


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