[ntp:questions] understanding assocID and ntpq>readvar

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Tue Jul 24 14:21:14 UTC 2018


On 2018-07-24, valizadeh.hs at gmail.com <valizadeh.hs at gmail.com> wrote:
> My questions:
> 1-how assocIDs are assinged to ntp peers?

They are assigned randomly and they cannot be predicted AFAIK.

> 2- is there any way to use Peers IP address instead? to use in "ntpq readvar"

Not addresses, but indexes. E.g. ntpq -c as -c 'rv &1' to get the
variables of the first association.

> 3- why ((ntpq -c "rv 23023 status")) don't work?

I guess it's because associd and status are not variables returned as
data in mode 6 packets, but they have their own special fields in the
packets. I'm not sure if it's possible to get them from ntpq separately
from the real variables.

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Miroslav Lichvar



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