[ntp:questions] NTP settings for machine with irregular, short connections to the Net

Rikishi 42 fsck_spam at telenet.be
Wed Sep 12 22:47:12 UTC 2007


On 2007-09-12, Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org> wrote:

>> Broadcast mode sounds like asking for troubles when you are plugged
>> into the net at the site you are visiting.  It would be too easy
>> to forget to turn it off.
>
> In the configuration files I previously posted the laptop was configured
> as a broadcast server, not a broadcast client. So there is no need to
> "turn it off".

I think the laptop being a server might be precisely what he's talking
about: the broadcast going 'out' my place, from the visiting laptop.

But if that's the case, I would worry about it. I'm on a LAN of my own, with
a broadband router to connect to my provider. Machines in my network get an
192.168.x.y address from the DHCP server in the router. A broadcast should
stay in the LAN.

I also suppose that the laptop can broadcast as much as he can, my machines
will only 'listen' to the server they're configured to use. (the ISP's)

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