[ntp:hackers] Broadcast flu

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Fri Sep 30 01:07:16 UTC 2005


Danny,

A little fooling turned up the same problem on Solaris, FreeBSD and 
Tru64, possibly among others. However, if I put broadcastclient in the 
configuration file ahead of broadcast, it all seems to work. Is this 
your intent?

Dave

Danny Mayer wrote:

> David L. Mills wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> The flu I reported with broadcast on my Alphae has spread to 
>> Solariba. On lighting up a broadcast server, an attempt to light up a 
>> broadcast client fails. This is a showstopper; the self-organizing 
>> capability for a manycast depends on this, as does the ghetto scheme.
>>
>> Ghetto scheme? Previously, I mentioned a scheme in which all 
>> participants broadcast their time to all other participants. All 
>> participants simply combine what they hear and set the clock 
>> accordingly. If one or more participants have a reference clock, 
>> ordinary NTP rules apply. The ghetto rules apply when it dies. Look 
>> Ma, no local clock driver.
>>
>> Anyway, before I could test it broadcast/broadcastclient went dark.
>>
>> Dave
>
>
> I'll run some tests on bridgeport, but it may be a day or so. Is it 
> finding the interface for the broadcastclient? Is this only a problem 
> for a combination of broadcast client and broadcast server. Is this 
> also a problem for multicast or did you not check that? I may not have 
> tested the combination together so it may require additional logic.
>
> Dany
>
> Danny




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