[ntp:questions] NTP broadcast on Windows2008

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Thu Jul 2 21:05:10 UTC 2009


On 2009-07-02, Earcom2 <earcom2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to be able to broadcast NTP out to a single subnet from a
> Windows 2008 server that sits on two networks.  I know that w32time
> does not support broadcasting, is it possible with ntpd?  Any help
> greatly appreciated.

Broadcast is one of the association modes supported by ntpd.

For some background see:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/manyopt.html#bcst
http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/manyopt.html#bcst
http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/assoc.html#broad

There are configuration examples at:

http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config-adv.htm#S-CONFIG-ADV-BRDCAST

Broadcast is discussed in The NTP Public Services Project Support Web
at:

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/WebSearch?search=broadcast

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




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